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Unescape a JavaScript String

22 Jan 2009 (Updated 22 Jan 2009)

Manually interprets a JavaScript string, which may contain escape characters.

File Information
Description	unescapeJavascriptString manually interprets a JavaScript string, which may contain escape characters. This is sometimes useful when scraping HTML.
MATLAB release	MATLAB 7.7 (R2008b)
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Other Files	license.txt, unescapeJavascriptString.m

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23 Jan 2009	us	hmmm... matthew, i had a string, which contained the - certainly valid - word 'THIS_IS_ESCAPED_DUDE'... and it got all screwed up... :-) us
23 Jan 2009	Matthew Simoneau	Yes, us, that is a real problem! There's probably a clever way to avoid this hack, but it didn't come to mind.

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22 Jan 2009	Stray space in description.

Tag Activity for this File
Tag	Applied By	Date/Time
javascript	Matthew Simoneau	22 Jan 2009 15:52:01
strings	Matthew Simoneau	22 Jan 2009 15:52:01

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