Re: How to escape a local path so fopen() doesn't consider it a URL?

On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 2:06 AM, Adam Jon Richardson <adamjonr@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 1:58 AM, Jesse Schalken <me@jesseschalken.com> > wrote: >> >> If I have a local file path that happens to look like a URL (for example, >> a >> file called "data:foo"), what is the correct escaping or manipulation that >> I have to do so that fopen() doesn't consider it a URL and it gets passed >> verbatim to fopen() in C? >> > > I believe you can use the backslash (\), as is noted in the documentation > related to the use of Window's paths that utilize the backslash instead of > the forward slash. That said, I also thought that the path had to begin > with a valid scheme (e.g., "protocol://"), so I'm not sure "data:foo" > would > prove troublesome (but I didn't have time to test anything before hitting > the hay.) > And, to clarify, I should have said, "I also thought that the path had to begin a valid URL (in contrast to merely forming a URI, which doesn't have to show the means of retrieval), ... Tired, I am. Adam