Question

I have to parse some files that contain some string that has characters in them that I need to escape. To make a short example you can imagine something like this:

        var stringFromFile = "This is \\n a test \\u0085";
        Console.WriteLine(stringFromFile);

The above results in the output:

        This is \n a test \u0085

, but I want the text escaped. How do I do this in C#? The text contains unicode characters too.

To make clear; The above code is just an example. The text contains the \n and unicode \u00xx characters from the file.

Example of the file contents:

Fisika (vanaf Grieks, \u03C6\u03C5\u03C3\u03B9\u03BA\u03CC\u03C2,
\”Natuurlik\”, en \u03C6\u03CD\u03C3\u03B9\u03C2, \”Natuur\”) is die
wetenskap van die Natuur

Answer 1

Try it using: Regex.Unescape(string)

Should be the right way.

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