The ExpressionUtilities type exposes the following members.
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
   | EscapeIdentifier | Escapes an identifier (a column/hierarchy/view name)
to be able to use special characters.
Replaces all ']' characters with ']]' and adds '[' to the beginning and ']' to the end of the string. |
| EscapeStringLiteral | Escape string literal to be able to use special characters,
adds escape sequences and " characters to the string.
All "-characters are replace with "" and "-characters are added to the start and end of the string. |
| UnescapeIdentifier | Unescape an identifier (a column/hierarchy/view name).
Removes the '[' and ']' characters at the beginning and end of the string and replaces all occurrences of ']]' with a single ']' character. |
| UnescapeStringLiteral | 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 \ |