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This library provides functions to escape and unescape strings.
It escapes them in a roughly 'sh' compatible way (e.g. double quotes supporting backslash escapes, single quotes supporting no escapes).
In addition, it provides support for common c-like ascii escapes (like \n for
newline, \v for vertical tab, etc) and rust-string-like unicode (via
\u{12ff} style escapes).
More importantly, this library also provides the ability to un-escape a given escaped text to recover the original string.
Why not use <other library>
Other libraries in rust I've found have one or more of the following problems:
- The escaped text is not as easily human-editable
- There is no way to un-escape text
- NIH