json.unescape - Real Function Reference

json.unescape(text: string): string

Arguments

string

required

Escaped JSON string content, or a complete quoted JSON string literal whose first and last bytes are quotes. The function reads this argument with string type checking.

Returns

string

Decoded string. Supported escapes include ”, \, /, \b, \f, \n, \r, \t, and \uXXXX with surrogate-pair handling. Invalid escapes, unescaped control characters, unterminated strings, and trailing characters after a quoted literal throw a Luau error with a near-position suffix.

Example

Decode JSON string escapes from escaped content or a quoted JSON string literal.

local escaped = json.escape("Real Docs" .. string.char(10) .. "Docs")
local restored = json.unescape(escaped)

print(restored)

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