compress

Makes a copy of a string replacing C string-style escape sequences with their one byte equivalent:

• `\b` → U+0008 Backspace
• `\f` → U+000C Form Feed
• `\n` → U+000A Line Feed
• `\r` → U+000D Carriage Return
• `\t` → U+0009 Horizontal Tabulation
• `\v` → U+000B Vertical Tabulation
• `\` followed by one to three octal digits → the numeric value (mod 256)
• `\` followed by any other character → the character as is. For example, `\\` will turn into a backslash (`\`) and `\"` into a double quote (`"`).

[func@GLib.strescape] does the reverse conversion.

Parameters:

source

a string to compress

Returns:

a newly-allocated copy of source with all escaped character compressed