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Function: escapeJava()

function escapeJava(input: string): string;

Defined in: escape-java.ts:37

Escape a string for use in Java

Character	Hex	Escape Sequence
NUL	0x00	\u0000
Backspace	0x08	\b
Tab	0x09	\t
Newline	0x0a	\n
Form Feed	0x0c	\f
Carriage Return	0x0d	\r
Double Quote	0x22	\"
Single Quote	0x27	\'
Backslash	0x5c	\\
Control Characters	0x00-0x1f, 0x7f-0x9f	\unnnn
BMP	0x0100-0xffff	\unnnn
Astral	0x10000-0x10ffff	\unnnn\unnnn[^1]

[^1]: Java does not support unicode escapes beyond 0xFFFF. Astral characters must be encoded as a two character surrogate pair.

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
input	string	The string to escape

Returns

string

The string escaped for Java

Example

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