json.quote

Escapes a string using Real’s JSON string escaping rules and returns a complete quoted JSON string literal.

Syntax

json.quote(text: string): string

Name	Type	Required	Description
`text`	`string`	Yes	String to quote. The function reads this argument with string type checking.

Name	Type	Description
`quoted`	`string`	Complete JSON string literal including the opening and closing quote. Quotes, backslashes, common control characters, and bytes below 0x20 are escaped.

Convert a string into a complete quoted JSON string literal.

local source = "Real Docs" .. string.char(10) .. [[Documentation "A"]]
local quoted = json.quote(source)

print(quoted)

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