ExpressionUtilities.UnescapeStringLiteral Method

ExpressionUtilities UnescapeStringLiteral Method

TIBCO Spotfire 7.0 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: 18.10.8513.5432 (18.10.8513.5432)

Syntax

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public static string UnescapeStringLiteral(
	string literal
)

public static string UnescapeStringLiteral(
	string literal
)

Parameters

literal: Type: System String
The escaped string literal.

Return Value

Type: String
The unescaped string literal.

Exceptions

Exception	Condition
System ArgumentException	Thrown 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: 7.0, 6.5, 6.0, 5.5, 5.0