Re: [PATCH v6 0/10] MR6966: windows.web: Partially implement IJsonValueStatics::Parse().

[Mohamad Al-Jaf (＠maljaf)]

On Wed Feb 12 13:59:51 2025 +0000, Rémi Bernon wrote:
> Similar to `trim_string` you could have an `unescape_string`, which
> would go through the string and remove escaping `''` characters.
> Something like that maybe (untested):
> static HRESULT unescape_string( HSTRING input, HSTRING *output )
> {
>     const WCHAR *src = WindowsGetStringRawBuffer( input, &len ), *end =
> src + len;
>     HSTRING_BUFFER buf;
>     UINT32 len, n;
>     HRESULT hr;
>     WCHAR *dst;
>     for (len = n = 0; len + n < end - src; len++) { if (src[len + n] ==
> '\') n++; }
>     if (FAILED(hr = WindowsPreallocateStringBuffer( len, &dst, &buf ))
> return hr;
>     while (src != end) { if (*src == '\' && ++src == end) break; *dst++
> = *src++; }
>     *dst = 0;
>     return WindowsPromoteStringBuffer( buf, output );
> }

Thanks, I had something similar in mind but I was hoping there would be a simpler way to remove it.