Just the part of a character's quoted form that encodes the character. - Java java.lang

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Just the part of a character's quoted form that encodes the character.

Demo Code

/*//ww  w . j  av a  2 s  .  co m
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 Source Code License Version 1.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
 except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License
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 July 20, 1998.

 The Initial Developer of the Original Code is Electric Communities.
 Copyright (C) 1998 Electric Communities. All Rights Reserved.

 Contributor(s): ______________________________________.
 */
//package com.java2s;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] argv) {
        char self = 'a';
        StringBuffer buf = new StringBuffer();
        System.out.println(escapedInto(self, buf));
    }

    /**
     * Just the part of a character's quoted form that encodes the character.
     * <p/>
     * In other words, everything except the enclosing quote signs. This is
     * used for composing a quoted {@link org.erights.e.meta.java.lang.CharacterSugar
     * #escaped(char) character}, {@link org.erights.e.develop.format.StringHelper#quote(String)
     * string}, or {@link org.erights.e.elib.tables.Twine#quote()} Twine.
     * <p/>
     * In order to be efficiently reusable, this method takes a StringBuffer
     * argument. Since this doesn't make much sense from E, this method is
     * tamed away.
     *
     * @noinspection UnnecessaryFullyQualifiedName
     */
    static public boolean escapedInto(char self, StringBuffer buf) {
        switch (self) {
        case '\b': {
            buf.append("\\b");
            return true;
        }
        case '\t': {
            buf.append("\\t");
            return true;
        }
        case '\n': {
            buf.append("\\n");
            return true;
        }
        case '\f': {
            buf.append("\\f");
            return true;
        }
        case '\r': {
            buf.append("\\r");
            return true;
        }
        case '\"': {
            buf.append("\\\"");
            return true;
        }
        case '\'': {
            buf.append("\\\'");
            return true;
        }
        case '\\': {
            buf.append("\\\\");
            return true;
        }
        default: {
            if (32 > self || 126 < self) {
                String num = "0000" + Integer.toHexString(self);
                int len = num.length();
                num = num.substring(len - 4, len);
                buf.append("\\u").append(num);
                return true;
            } else {
                buf.append(self);
                return false;
            }
        }
        }
    }
}

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