ExpressionUtilities Class TIBCO Spotfire 7.12 API Reference
Utilities for escaping and unescaping sting literals and names to be used in expressions.
Inheritance Hierarchy

SystemObject
  Spotfire.Dxp.Data.ExpressionsExpressionUtilities

Namespace: Spotfire.Dxp.Data.Expressions
Assembly: Spotfire.Dxp.Data (in Spotfire.Dxp.Data.dll) Version: 30.0.11525.4184 (30.0.11525.4184)
Syntax

C#
public static class ExpressionUtilities

The ExpressionUtilities type exposes the following members.

Methods

  NameDescription
Public methodStatic memberCode exampleEscapeIdentifier
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 memberCode exampleEscapeStringLiteral
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 memberCode exampleUnescapeIdentifier
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 memberCode exampleUnescapeStringLiteral
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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Version Information

Supported in: 7.9, 7.8, 7.7, 7.6, 7.5, 7.12, 7.11, 7.10, 7.0
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