String Escape / Unescape

Escape special characters (newlines, quotes) for use in string literals (Java, JS, C++) or unescape them back to text.

Programming String Literals

When pasting text into source code, you often need to escape special characters.

  • Backspace: \b
  • Newline: \n
  • Tab: \t
  • Quote: \"

Usage

  • Escape: Converts raw text to a single-line string literal content.
  • Unescape: Converts the escaped string back to original formatted text.

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Frequently Asked Questions

This tool uses standard escaping rules common to C, C++, Java, JavaScript, and C#. It escapes quotes, backslashes, newlines, tabs, etc.

They are very similar. This tool focuses on general programming string literals, which often aligns with JSON rules for double-quoted strings.