Manuals/calci/UNESCAPE

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UNESCAPE (Text)


  • is any text.

Description

  • This function computes a new string.
  • In  ,  is any text to be decoded.
  • The unescape() function computes a new string in which hexadecimal escape sequences are replaced with the character that it represents.
  • The escape sequences might be introduced by a function like escape.
  • The unescape function is a property of the global object.
  • Usually, decodeURI or decodeURIComponent are preferred over unescape.
  • So in the result a new string in which certain characters have been unescaped.

Examples

  1. unescape('abc123') = abc123
  2. unescape('%E4%F6%FC') = äöü
  3. unescape('%u0107') = ć

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