Escape special characters ninja way

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/src/Ninja.cpp b/src/Ninja.cpp
index 778e701..70b0b57 100644
--- a/src/Ninja.cpp
+++ b/src/Ninja.cpp
@@ -78,12 +78,18 @@ namespace ninja
         result.reserve(str.size());
         for(char c : str)
         {
-            if(c == '"')
-                result += "\\\"";
+            if(c == '\n')
+                result += "$\n";
+            else if(c == '$')
+                result += "$$";
+            else if(c == ' ')
+                result += "$ ";
+            else if(c == ':')
+                result += "$:";
             else
                 result += c;
         }
-        return '"' + result + '"';
+        return result;
     }
 
     static std::string combine_escape(const std::vector<std::string> &strs)