[Aderic]

Is there a method to escape format specifiers such as %i, %s, %f, etc?

I could iterate through the string and remove format specifiers from the user input but I'd prefer a method that allowed the input, but treated it as a regular string rather than a placeholder.

[Powerlord]

Any particular reason you need to do this?

If you pass a string to format for a %s modifier, it won't process any modifiers in it.

i.e.

Format(myString, sizeof(myString), "%s", userInput);

[Aderic]

Originally Posted by Powerlord Any particular reason you need to do this? If you pass a string to format for a %s modifier, it won't process any modifiers in it. i.e. Format(myString, sizeof(myString), "%s", userInput);

I'll try that out, PrintToChat definitely doesn't honor this system. Doing this:

PrintToChat(client, "%s", message);

while message contains a %s causes the message to be cut off with an error hitting the client console:
Bad format string in CLocalizeStringTable::ConstructString

Edit: Format is not doing it, I think it has to do with PrintToChat.
Edit 2: I can see two % signs can be used to escape a single % sign, too bad the solution isn't as simple as using %%s to escape %s.

[Leonardo]

%%

[Aderic]

Originally Posted by Leonardo %%

That does not work for escaping %s. That only works for escaping a single % see the posting I made some time ago.

[Leonardo]

Originally Posted by Aderic That does not work for escaping %s. That only works for escaping a single % see the posting I made some time ago.

so %%s wont work?

EDIT:
also, built-in chat processor would replace a single % (0x25) with space (0x20).

[KissLick]

Not tested, but what about?

\%s