clojure.core/char-escape-string

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Type: var Added: Clojure 1.0 Examples: 2 Runnable: 2

()

Returns escape string for char or nil if none

Examples

by shockbob on 2011-08-21 ▶

;; simple examples (char-escape-string \newline) "\\n" (char-escape-string \c) ; no escape sequence for 'c' nil (char-escape-string \tab) "\\t" (char-escape-string \backspace) "\\b"

by reborg on 2018-08-22 ▶

(require '[clojure.string :as s]) ;; Would like to print "s" as shown literally: (def s "Type backslash-t '\t' followed by backslash-n '\n'") ;; This doesn't work, as \t and \n are interpreted: (println s) ;; Type backslash-t ' ' followed by backslash-n ' ;; ' ;; Use with escape to print literally: (println (s/escape s char-escape-string)) ;; Type backslash-t '\t' followed by backslash-n '\n'

See also

• clojure.core/char-name-string (2)
• clojure.string/escape (3)

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