Java Utililty Methods String Unescape

List of utility methods to do String Unescape

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Description

The list of methods to do String Unescape are organized into topic(s).

Method

Stringunescape(String aString)
Remove "escaped" chars from a string. 
if (aString == null)
    return null;
String normalString = replace(aString, EQUAL_SIGN_ENTITY, EQUAL_SIGN);
normalString = replace(normalString, LINE_FEED_ENTITY, LINE_FEED);
normalString = replace(normalString, CARRIAGE_RETURN_ENTITY, CARRIAGE_RETURN);
normalString = replace(normalString, LINE_TAB_ENTITY, LINE_TAB);
return normalString;
Stringunescape(String aValue)
Unescapes hex values in a URI query value. 
if (aValue == null) {
    return aValue;
char[] chars = aValue.toCharArray();
StringBuffer buf = new StringBuffer(chars.length);
for (int i = 0; i < chars.length; i++) {
    if (chars[i] == '%') {
        ++i;
...
Stringunescape(String data)
unescape 
StringBuilder buffer = new StringBuilder(data.length());
for (int i = 0; i < data.length(); i++) {
    if ((int) data.charAt(i) > 256) {
        buffer.append("\\u").append(Integer.toHexString((int) data.charAt(i)));
    } else {
        if (data.charAt(i) == '\n') {
            buffer.append("\\n");
        } else if (data.charAt(i) == '\t') {
...
Stringunescape(String elt)
unescape 
if (elt.length() == 0 || (elt.indexOf('\\') < 0 && elt.indexOf('"') < 0)) {
    return elt.trim();
char[] elts = elt.toCharArray();
boolean escaped = false;
boolean quoted = false;
StringBuffer buf = new StringBuffer(elt.length());
int start = 0;
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Stringunescape(String entry)
Unescapes a given entry. 
String unescaped = entry.trim();
if (unescaped.startsWith("\"") && unescaped.endsWith("\"")) {
    unescaped = unescaped.substring(1, unescaped.length() - 1);
    unescaped = unescaped.replace("\"\"", "\"");
return unescaped.trim();
Stringunescape(String escaped)
unescape 
boolean escaping = false;
StringBuilder newString = new StringBuilder();
for (char c : escaped.toCharArray()) {
    if (!escaping) {
        if (c == ESCAPE_CHAR) {
            escaping = true;
        } else {
            newString.append(c);
...
Stringunescape(String escaped)
Unescape all escape sequences in string (strip one level of backslashes). 
char[] source = escaped.toCharArray();
char[] dest = new char[source.length];
int j = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < source.length; i++) {
    if ((source[i] != '\\') || (i > 0 && source[i - 1] == '\\')) {
        dest[j++] = source[i];
return new String(dest, 0, j);
Stringunescape(String escaped, char escape)
Opposite of #escape(String,char,char) 
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(escaped.length());
for (int i = 0, n = escaped.length(); i < n; i++) {
    char c = escaped.charAt(i);
    if (c == escape) {
        i++;
        c = escaped.charAt(i);
    sb.append(c);
...
Stringunescape(String escapedMessage)
Returns a string with all escaped occurrence of StringUtils.SEPARATOR unescaped 
return unescape(escapedMessage, SEPARATOR);
Stringunescape(String input)
Method description 
return translateAll(input, encoded, decoded);