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JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, Fourth Edition
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JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, Fourth Edition

by David Flanagan
November 2001
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
936 pages
68h 43m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

unescape( ) — decode an escaped string

Availability

JavaScript 1.0; JScript 1.0; ECMAScript v1; deprecated in ECMAScript v3

Synopsis

unescape(s)

Arguments

s

The string that is to be decoded or “unescaped.”

Returns

A decoded copy of s.

Description

unescape( ) is a global function that decodes a string encoded with escape( ). It decodes s by finding and replacing character sequences of the form % xx and %u xxxx (where x represents a hexadecimal digit) with the Unicode characters \u00 xx and \ u xxxx.

Although unescape( ) was standardized in the first version of ECMAScript, it has been deprecated and removed from the standard by ECMAScript v3. Implementations of ECMAScript are likely to implement this function, but they are not required to. In JavaScript 1.5 and JScript 5.5 and later, you should use decodeURI( ) and decodeURIComponent( ) instead of unescape( ). See escape( ) for more details and an example.

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