ExpressionUtilitiesUnescapeStringLiteral Method

Spotfire 14.3 API Reference
Unescape a string literal, removes the starting and ending "/'-characters handles escape sequences and replaces all ""/''-string with a single "/'-character.

Escape Sequences:\ \uHHHH - Any Unicode character expressed as four hexadecimal digits.\ \ooo - A character in the range 0-255 expressed as three octal\ digits 0-7.\ \b - \u0008: backspace (BS)\ \t - \u0009: horizontal tab (HT)\ \n - \u000a: line feed (LF)\ \f - \u000c: form feed (FF)\ \r - \u000d: carriage return (CR)\ \\ - \u005c: backslash \

Namespace:  Spotfire.Dxp.Data.Expressions
Assembly:  Spotfire.Dxp.Data (in Spotfire.Dxp.Data.dll) Version: 65.0.19510.3242 (65.0.19510.3242)
Syntax
C#
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public static string UnescapeStringLiteral(
	string literal
)

Parameters

literal
Type: SystemString
The escaped string literal.

Return Value

Type: String
The unescaped string literal.
Exceptions
ExceptionCondition
ArgumentExceptionThrown if the literal does not start and end with either ' or " characters.
Examples
UnescapeStringLiteral("\"a\"\"b\"") gives the result "a\"b"\ UnescapeStringLiteral("'a''b'") gives the result "a'b"\ UnescapeStringLiteral("'a\"\"b'") gives the result "a\"\"b"
Version Information

Supported in: 14.3, 14.2, 14.1, 14.0, 12.5, 12.4, 12.3, 12.2, 12.1, 12.0, 11.8
See Also

Reference

ExpressionUtilities Class
Spotfire.Dxp.Data.Expressions Namespace