Unescjson
This function restores an escaped JSON string to its original state. It replaces the escape sequences within the string with the respective character they represent.
Syntax
The implementation of the UnescJson function follows the JSON data interchange syntax standard (ECMA-404 Standard, 2nd Edition from December 2017).
A string is a sequence of Unicode code points wrapped with quotation marks (U+0022). You can place all code points within quotation marks except for code points that must be escaped:
- Quotation mark (U+0022)
- Reverse solidus (U+005C)
- Control characters from U+0000 to U+001F
Examples
Local Char JSONCONSTANT(100), MYCONSTANT(100)
JSONCONSTANT='This is an \"example\" with back\\slashes'
MYCONSTANT=unescJson(JSONCONSTANT)
# Now MYCONSTANT contains 'This is an "example" with back\slashes'