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CheckEscapesA(3w)

NAME

CheckEscapesA (SHELL32.@)

SYNOPSIS

DWORD CheckEscapesA
(
LPSTR string,
DWORD len
)

PARAMS

string [In/Out] string to check ??.

len [In] is 0.

DESCRIPTION

Checks a string for special characters which are not allowed in a path and encloses it in quotes if that is the case.

PARAMS

string [In/Out] string to check and on return eventually quoted.

len [In] length of string.

RETURNS

length of actual string.

NOTES

Not really sure if this function returns actually a value at all.

IMPLEMENTATION

Declared in "undocshell.h".

Implemented in "dlls/shell32/shellstring.c".

Debug channel "shell".

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