json.escape - Real Function Reference

json.escape(text: string): string

Arguments

string

required

String to escape. The function reads this argument with string type checking.

string

Escaped JSON string content without the opening and closing quote. Quotes, backslashes, common control characters, and bytes below 0x20 are escaped.

Escape a string for the inside of a JSON string without adding the surrounding quotes.

local source = "line 1" .. string.char(10) .. [[line "2"]]
local escaped = json.escape(source)

print(escaped)