Function convertExtendedToString

src/findwin.cpp:812–903

int convertExtendedToString(QString& query, QString &result)
{	//query may equal to result, since it always gets smaller
	int i = 0, j = 0;

	int length = query.length();
	int charLeft = length;
	QChar current;
	while (i < length)
	{	//because the backslash escape quences always reduce the size of the generic_string, no overflow checks have to be made for target, assuming parameters are correct
		current = query.at(i);
		--charLeft;
		if (current == '\\' && charLeft)
		{	//possible escape sequence
			++i;
			--charLeft;
			current = query.at(i);
			switch (current.toLatin1())
			{
			case 'r':
				result[j] = '\r';
				break;
			case 'n':
				result[j] = '\n';
				break;
			case '0':
				result[j] = '\0';
				break;
			case 't':
				result[j] = '\t';
				break;
			case '\\':
				result[j] = '\\';
				break;
			case 'b':
			case 'd':
			case 'o':
			case 'x':
			case 'u':
			{
				int size = 0, base = 0;
				if (current == 'b')
				{	//11111111
					size = 8, base = 2;
				}
				else if (current == 'o')
				{	//377
					size = 3, base = 8;
				}
				else if (current == 'd')
				{	//255
					size = 3, base = 10;
				}
				else if (current == 'x')
				{	//0xFF
					size = 2, base = 16;
				}
				else if (current == 'u')
				{	//0xCDCD