ExpressionUtilities Members TIBCO Spotfire 6.5 API Reference
The ExpressionUtilities type exposes the following members.
Methods

  NameDescription
Public methodStatic memberEscapeIdentifier
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.

Public methodStatic memberEscapeStringLiteral
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.

Public methodStatic memberUnescapeIdentifier
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.

Public methodStatic memberUnescapeStringLiteral
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 \

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