Java Utililty Methods String Unescape

CharSequence unescape(final CharSequence target)
unescape

final StringBuilder buff = builder();
final int len = target.length();
for (int i = 0; i < len; i++) {
 final char ch = target.charAt(i);
 if (ch == '#') {
 i++;
 buff.append(target.charAt(i));
 } else {
...

String unescape(final String aSpecification)
Unescapes the interface string: replaces '%2F' by slashes '/'

return aSpecification.replaceAll("%2F", "/");

String unescape(final String input)
unescape

if (input == null) {
 return input;
return input.replace("\\t", "\t").replace("\\n", "\n").replace("\\r", "\r");

String unescape(final String name)
Reverts modifications of #escape(String) such that for all String s t , t.equals(unescape(escape(t))) .

if (name == null) {
 throw new IllegalArgumentException();
StringBuilder buffer = new StringBuilder(name.length());
String str = name;
int i = str.indexOf(escapeChar);
while (i > -1 && i + 2 < str.length()) {
 buffer.append(str.toCharArray(), 0, i);
...

String unescape(final String s)
unescape

char ch;
final StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
final StringBuilder sb2 = new StringBuilder();
int ii;
int i;
for (i = 0; i < s.length(); i++) {
 ch = s.charAt(i);
 switch (ch) {
...

String unescape(final String source)
unescape

if (source == null) {
 return null;
String result = source;
result = result.replaceAll("&", "&");
result = result.replaceAll(""", "\"");
result = result.replaceAll("'", "\'");
result = result.replaceAll("<", "<");
...

String unescape(final String str, final char escapeChar)
Unescapes characters in a escaped string.

final StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder(str.length());
unescape(str, escapeChar, builder);
return builder.toString();

String unescape(final String string, final char quoteChar)
Unescapes specified quote character.

final StringBuilder sbString = new StringBuilder(string.length());
boolean escaped = false;
for (int i = 0; i < string.length(); i++) {
 final char chr = string.charAt(i);
 if (chr == '\\') {
 if (i + 1 < string.length() && string.charAt(i + 1) == quoteChar) {
 i++;
 sbString.append(quoteChar);
...

String unescape(final String text)
unescape

StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder(text.length());
int i = 0;
int n = text.length();
while (i < n) {
 char charAt = text.charAt(i);
 if (charAt != '&') {
 result.append(charAt);
 i++;
...

String[] unescape(final String[] inval, final Character escapeChar)
Unescape an array of Strings.

if (inval != null && escapeChar != null && inval.length != 0) {
 for (int i = 0; i < inval.length; i++) {
 inval[i] = unescape(inval[i], escapeChar);
return inval;