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Function: escapeJS()

function escapeJS(input: string): string;

Defined in: escape-js.ts:38

Escape a string for use in Javascript

Character	Hex	Escape Sequence
NUL	0x00	\0 or \x00[^1]
Backspace	0x08	\b
Tab	0x09	\t
Newline	0x0a	\n
Vertical Tab	0x0b	\v
Form Feed	0x0c	\f
Carriage Return	0x0d	\r
Double Quote	0x22	\"
Single Quote	0x27	\'
Backslash	0x5c	\\
Control Characters	0x00-0x1f, 0x7f-0x9f	\xnn
BMP	0x0100-0xffff	\unnnn
Astral	0x10000-0x10ffff	\u

[^1]: The sequence \0 must not be followed by a octal digit (0-7) to avoid being interpreted as a different character, \x00 will be used to avoid ambiguity.

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
input	string	The string to escape

Returns

string

Sting escaped for Javascript

Example

escapeJS('Hello\nWorld'); // "Hello\\nWorld"
escapeJS('"\\');          // "\\\"\\\\"
escapeJS('\b');           // "\\b"
escapeJS('\u20ac');       // "\\u20ac"