Unescape a JavaScript String
version 1.3.0.1 (3.28 KB) by
Matthew Simoneau
Manually interprets a JavaScript string, which may contain escape characters.
unescapeJavaScriptString manually interprets a JavaScript string, which may contain escape characters. This is sometimes useful when scraping HTML.
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Matthew Simoneau (2021). Unescape a JavaScript String (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/22760-unescape-a-javascript-string), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .
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Yes, us, that is a real problem!
There's probably a clever way to avoid this hack, but it didn't come to mind.
hmmm...
matthew,
i had a string, which contained the - certainly valid - word 'THIS_IS_ESCAPED_DUDE'...
and it got all screwed up...
:-)
us