String Escape / Unescape
Escape special characters (newlines, quotes) for use in string literals (Java, JS, C++) or unescape them back to text.
Input String
Escaped Output
Input String
Escaped Output
Input String
Programming String Literals
When pasting text into source code, you often need to escape special characters.
- Backspace:
\b - Newline:
\n - Tab:
\t - Quote:
\"
Usage
- Escape: Converts raw text to a single-line string literal content.
- Unescape: Converts the escaped string back to original formatted text.
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Frequently Asked Questions
This tool uses standard escaping rules common to C, C++, Java, JavaScript, and C#. It escapes quotes, backslashes, newlines, tabs, etc.
They are very similar. This tool focuses on general programming string literals, which often aligns with JSON rules for double-quoted strings.