strings: escape sequence translation

[nadashin]

Why is the function in Go compiler that interprets escape sequences not
available in Go's standard library?

[Kurtis Rader]

On Mon, Sep 6, 2021 at 7:40 PM 'nadashin' via golang-nuts <golan...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Why is the function in Go compiler that interprets escape sequences not
available in Go's standard library?

It does. See https://pkg.go.dev/strconv#Unquote. Try this hastily thrown together example:

package main

import (
"fmt"
"strconv"
)

func main() {
e := strconv.Quote("a\033\r\nb")
v, err := strconv.Unquote(e)
fmt.Printf("%v .%v. .%v.\n", err, e, v)
}

 

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Kurtis Rader

Caretaker of the exceptional canines Junior and Hank

[nadashin]

On Tuesday, September 7th, 2021 at 08:55, Kurtis Rader <kra...@skepticism.us> wrote:

> It does. See https://pkg.go.dev/strconv#Unquote. Try this hastily thrown together example:
>
> package main
>
> import (
> "fmt"
> "strconv"
> )
>
> func main() {
> e := strconv.Quote("a\033\r\nb")
> v, err := strconv.Unquote(e)
> fmt.Printf("%v .%v. .%v.\n", err, e, v)
> }

This is silly. I want to be able to pass any valid string and get a result.

[Jan Mercl]

On Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at 2:29 PM 'nadashin' via golang-nuts
<golan...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

> > It does. See https://pkg.go.dev/strconv#Unquote. Try this hastily thrown together example:
> >
> > package main
> >
> > import (
> > "fmt"
> > "strconv"
> > )
> >
> > func main() {
> > e := strconv.Quote("a\033\r\nb")
> > v, err := strconv.Unquote(e)
> > fmt.Printf("%v .%v. .%v.\n", err, e, v)
> > }
>
> This is silly. I want to be able to pass any valid string and get a result.

That's exactly what the code demonstrates. Please provide an example
of some code you need to make work and where do you get stuck. Or some
other clue enabling others to help you. Thanks.

[Jan Mercl]

FTR: This seems to be an unfortunate way of continuing the thread at
https://groups.google.com/g/golang-nuts/c/kBj-yEJuMtM/m/LKdFK_cZHAAJ
without ever answering the questions that others asked there while
trying to help you.

[nadashin]

Apologies for my lack of proper description, wrong assumptions and improper
understanding.

strconv.Unquote should be what I was looking for.

Only inconvenience is that other " in the string needs to be escaped, well
that's part of Go's syntax, so I should not complain.