From 8582787ca677bf6978b23a8d6c9741f3b7842179 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jprocter <jprocter@compbio.dundee.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2011 11:42:18 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] simple escape utility class for JAL-1023 patch

---
 src/jalview/util/Platform.java |   19 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/jalview/util/Platform.java b/src/jalview/util/Platform.java
index 392f1f9..ad9a9b7 100644
--- a/src/jalview/util/Platform.java
+++ b/src/jalview/util/Platform.java
@@ -51,4 +51,23 @@ public class Platform
     // TODO: determine nominal limits for most platforms.
     return 2046; // this is the max length for a windows NT system.
   }
+
+  /**
+   * escape a string according to the local platform's escape character
+   * @param file
+   * @return escaped file
+   */
+  public static String escapeString(String file)
+  {
+    StringBuffer f=new StringBuffer();
+    int p=0,lastp=0;
+    while ((p=file.indexOf('\\',lastp))>-1)
+    {
+      f.append(file.subSequence(lastp,p));
+      f.append("\\\\");
+      lastp=p+1;
+    }
+    f.append(file.substring(lastp));
+    return f.toString();
+  }
 }
-- 
1.7.10.2