stresc

Process escape sequences in a string.

string stresc <string:Text>

A string containing the escaped text.

string s
set s "The newlines has been escaped\\r\\n...and so have the \\\"quotation marks\\\""

// echo the escaped text
echo "Escaped:"
echo <stresc s>

// echo the unescaped text
echo "Unescaped:"
echo s

… the output of which is written to the event log by echo as:

Escaped:

The newlines has been escaped
...and so have the "quotation marks"

Unescaped:

The newlines has been escaped\r\n...and so have the \"quotation marks\"

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