GLib.markup_printf_escaped
Description: Reference for GLib.markup_printf_escaped

### Function

# GLibmarkup_printf_escaped

since: 2.4

#### Declaration [src]

    gchar*
    g_markup_printf_escaped (
      const char* format,
      ...
    )

#### Description [src]

Formats arguments according to `format`, escaping all string and character arguments in the fashion of g_markup_escape_text(). This is useful when you want to insert literal strings into XML-style markup output, without having to worry that the strings might themselves contain markup.

    const char *store = "Fortnum & Mason";
    const char *item = "Tea";
    char *output;

    output = g_markup_printf_escaped ("<purchase>"
                                      "<store>%s</store>"
                                      "<item>%s</item>"
                                      "</purchase>",
                                      store, item);

Available since: 2.4

This function is not directly available to language bindings.

#### Parameters

`format`

  Type: `const char*`

  Printf() style format string.

  The data is owned by the caller of the function.
  The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.

`...`

  Type: ``

  The arguments to insert in the format string.

#### Return value

Type: `gchar*`

Newly allocated result from formatting operation. Free with g_free().

The caller of the function takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it.
The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.