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Escape / Unescape

Escape or unescape special characters in text

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What are Escape Sequences?

Escape sequences are special character combinations that represent characters which cannot be directly typed or would have special meaning in text. They start with a backslash (\) followed by a character code, allowing…

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How does it work?

Escaping replaces special characters with their escape sequence equivalents (e.g., a newline becomes \\n). Unescaping reverses this process, converting escape sequences back into their actual characters. This is essenti…

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Sample Cases

Covers Newline escape and Quote escape so you can compare common inputs and outputs quickly.

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TypeScript

typescript

// Escape special characters for JavaScript strings
function escapeString(input: string): string {
  return input
    .replace(/\\/g, '\\\\')
    .replace(/"/g, '\\"')
    .replace(/'/g, "\\'")
    .replace(/\n/g, '\\n')
    .replace(/\r/g, '\\r')
    .replace(/\t/g, '\\t');
}