How to remove escape sequences from stream

Question

is there an quick way to find(and remove) all escape sequences from a Stream/String??

Answer 1

The escape sequences that you are referring to are simply text based represntations of characters that are normally either unprintable (such as new lines or tabs) or conflict with other characters used in source code files (such as the backslash "\").

Although when debugging you might see these chracters represented as escaped characters in the debugger, the actual characters in the stream are not "escaped", they are those actual characters (for example a new line character).

If you want to remove certain characters (such as newline characters) then remove them in the same way you would any other character (e.g. the letter "a")

// Removes all newline characters in a string
myString.Replace("\n", "");

If you are actually doing some processing on a string that contains escaped characters (such as a source code file) then you can simply replace the escaped string with its unescaped equivalent:

// Replaces the string "\n" with the newline character
myString.Replace("\\n", "\n");

In the above I use the escape sequence for the backslash so that I match the string "\n", instead of the newline character.