when using \ to escape a character from processing, the \ should not show up in the...

diff --git a/src/rrd_graph_helper.c b/src/rrd_graph_helper.c
index 2a9091a540d79cf71ab4d4f6c7b813a36ad49a1e..7df07dd72cc107964759e480658d535104c661d5 100644 (file)
--- a/src/rrd_graph_helper.c
+++ b/src/rrd_graph_helper.c
@@ -204,7 +204,10 @@ int parseArguments(const char* origarg, parsedargs_t* pa) {
     switch (c) {
       /* if the char is a backslash, then this escapes the next one */
     case '\\':
-      if (pos[1]) { pos++; }
+      if (pos[1]) {
+        /* move up the rest of the string to eat the backslash */
+        memmove(pos,pos+1,strlen(pos+1)+1);
+      }
       break;
     case 0:
     case ':':