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Unescape a JavaScript String

22 Jan 2009 (Updated 21 Jan 2010)

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

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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)

Comments and Ratings (2)
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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Updates
22 Jan 2009	Stray space in description.
04 Jan 2010	Add trademark.
21 Jan 2010	Fix case on "JavaScript". Add examples. Fix command window help.