R: Unescape All Escape Sequences

stri_unescape_unicode {stringi} | R Documentation

## Unescape All Escape Sequences

### Description

Unescapes all known escape sequences

### Usage

    stri_unescape_unicode(str)

### Arguments

`str` | character vector

### Details

Uses ICU facilities to unescape Unicode character sequences.

The following ASCII standard escapes are recognized: `\a`, `\b`, `\t`, `\n`, `\v`, `\?`, `\e`, `\f`, `\r`, `\"`, `\'`, `\\`.

Moreover, the function understands the following ones: `\uXXXX` (4 hex digits), `\UXXXXXXXX` (8 hex digits), `\xXX` (1-2 hex digits), `\ooo` (1-3 octal digits), `\cX` (control-X; X is masked with 0x1F). For `\xXX` and `\ooo` beware of non-valid UTF8 byte sequences.

Note that some versions of R on Windows cannot handle characters defined with \UXXXXXXXX. We are working on that.

### Value

Returns a character vector. If an escape sequence is ill-formed, result will be `NA` and a warning will be given.

### See Also

Other escape: `stri_escape_unicode`

### Examples

    stri_unescape_unicode("a\\u0105!\\u0032\\n")

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