Interpreting literal escape sequences from a file...

[Sebastiani]

I have a generic parser class which I have packaged as an exe. The program opens a configuration file which contains the parsing rules. The problem is when the user tries to define an escape sequence as a token. In a compiler environment this is as simple as

parser.define("\t");

But of course the compiler then converts this to the actual ASCII value for me.

So I am looking for a standardized way to interpret all possible escape sequences as read from the configuration file.

Any ideas?

[Sebastiani]

Aha, thank you. Actually, the more I thought about it, it seems the traditional ones would work just fine, I'll just be sure to include a table along with the program that lists them for the user, for posterity.

Thanks for the input, Salem.