/*
***************************************************************************************
* Copyright (C) 2006 EsperTech, Inc. All rights reserved. *
* http://www.espertech.com/esper *
* http://www.espertech.com *
* ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *
* The software in this package is published under the terms of the GPL license *
* a copy of which has been included with this distribution in the license.txt file. *
***************************************************************************************
*/
package com.espertech.esperio.socket.core;
public class UnescapeUtil {
/**
* Unescapes a string that contains standard Java escape sequences.
* <ul>
* <li><strong>\b \f \n \r \t \" \'</strong> :
* BS, FF, NL, CR, TAB, double and single quote.</li>
* <li><strong>\X \XX \XXX</strong> : Octal character
* specification (0 - 377, 0x00 - 0xFF).</li>
* <li><strong>\uXXXX</strong> : Hexadecimal based Unicode character.</li>
* </ul>
*
* @param st A string optionally containing standard java escape sequences.
* @return The translated string.
*/
public static String unescapeJavaString(String st) {
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(st.length());
for (int i = 0; i < st.length(); i++) {
char ch = st.charAt(i);
if (ch == '\\') {
char nextChar = (i == st.length() - 1) ? '\\' : st
.charAt(i + 1);
// Octal escape?
if (nextChar >= '0' && nextChar <= '7') {
String code = "" + nextChar;
i++;
if ((i < st.length() - 1) && st.charAt(i + 1) >= '0'
&& st.charAt(i + 1) <= '7') {
code += st.charAt(i + 1);
i++;
if ((i < st.length() - 1) && st.charAt(i + 1) >= '0'
&& st.charAt(i + 1) <= '7') {
code += st.charAt(i + 1);
i++;
}
}
sb.append((char) Integer.parseInt(code, 8));
continue;
}
switch (nextChar) {
case '\\':
ch = '\\';
break;
case 'b':
ch = '\b';
break;
case 'f':
ch = '\f';
break;
case 'n':
ch = '\n';
break;
case 'r':
ch = '\r';
break;
case 't':
ch = '\t';
break;
case '\"':
ch = '\"';
break;
case '\'':
ch = '\'';
break;
// Hex Unicode: u????
case 'u':
if (i >= st.length() - 5) {
ch = 'u';
break;
}
int code = Integer.parseInt(
"" + st.charAt(i + 2) + st.charAt(i + 3)
+ st.charAt(i + 4) + st.charAt(i + 5), 16);
sb.append(Character.toChars(code));
i += 5;
continue;
}
i++;
}
sb.append(ch);
}
return sb.toString();
}
}