String Escape

To put text containing quotes, line breaks, or backslashes inside a string literal in code, those characters need escaping — otherwise they'll end the string early or get misinterpreted. This tool escapes and unescapes text for a specific syntax.

How to use it

• Escape: paste text and pick a target context (a JS string, JSON, shell, etc.) and special characters get replaced with the matching escape sequences.
• Unescape: paste an already-escaped string to get the original text back.
• Different contexts escape the same character differently — make sure you've picked the mode matching where the text will actually be inserted.

Common uses

• Inserting multi-line text or text with quotes into a code variable without manually placing backslashes.
• Preparing a string for a shell command, where quotes and special characters can break execution.
• Unescaping a string copied from logs or a JSON response to read the original text.

Things to keep in mind

The same character (a double quote, for example) is escaped differently depending on context — a JS string, JSON, and a shell each have their own syntax and their own set of special characters.

Double-escaping (escaping already-escaped text) is a common mistake when passing data through multiple layers, like JSON nested inside a shell command.