Escape Sequences For Managing Whitespace (Preview)

[Brian Goetz]

In an earlier round there was a pair of methods, which were variously called escape/unescape, encode/decodeEscapes, etc.  No one could remember which was in which direction … there is currently not such a method.

> On Aug 19, 2019, at 8:18 PM, Joe Darcy <joe.darcy at oracle.com> wrote:
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> Hello,
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> Are there plans for methods to take a string and produce value-preserving escape sequence encodings of it, quoting trailing whitespace, etc.?
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> Cheers,
> 
> -Joe
> 
> On 8/13/2019 5:46 AM, Jim Laskey wrote:
>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8227870 <https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8227870>
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>> Comment back to this list, thank you.
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>> Cheers,
>> 
>> -- Jim
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