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< dtutils.string
escape_xml_characters >

# details

# 🔗DTUTILS.STRING

## 🔗NAME

dtutils.string

## 🔗SYNOPSIS

a library of string utilities for use in darktable lua scripts

## 🔗USAGE

    local ds = require "lib/dtutils.string"

## 🔗DESCRIPTION

This library contains string manipulation routines to aid in building darktable lua scripts.

## 🔗RETURN VALUE

ds - library - the darktable lua string library

## 🔗FUNCTIONS

### 🔗 escape_xml_characters

escape characters for xml documents

### 🔗 is_not_sanitized

check if a string has been sanitized

### 🔗 sanitize

surround a string in quotes making it safe to pass as an argument

### 🔗 sanitize_lua

escape lua ‘magic’ characters from a pattern string

### 🔗 strip_accents

strip accents from characters

### 🔗 urlencode

encode a string in a websafe manner

## 🔗LICENSE

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

< dtutils.string
escape_xml_characters >