unescapeStringLiteral

@webda/ql

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Function: unescapeStringLiteral()

unescapeStringLiteral(literal): string

Defined in: packages/ql/src/query.ts:48

Strip the quotes of a WebdaQL string literal and unescape its contents.

Processes the inner text (between outer quotes) with these rules, applied left-to-right:

• \\ → \ (escaped backslash)
• `` followed by the literal's quote char → the quote char (backslash-escaped quote)
• the quote char doubled → one quote char (SQL-style doubled quote)
• any other \x → \x kept verbatim (so LIKE's \% and \_ reach likeToRegex unchanged)

Parameters

literal

string

the literal including its surrounding quotes

Returns

string

the literal value