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JSON Escape and Unescape a String

Demonstrates how to JSON escape or unescape a string. AutoIt

$oSb = ObjCreate("Chilkat.StringBuilder")

$oSb.Append("backslash: \\, A: \u0041")
ConsoleWrite($oSb.GetAsString() & @CRLF)

; The output is:
;    backslash: \\, A: \u0041

; The keyword "json" can be used
; to escape and unescape.  To escape is to encode.  To unescape is to decode.

; Unescape (decode) the string in sb.
$oSb.Decode("json","utf-8")
ConsoleWrite($oSb.GetAsString() & @CRLF)

; After JSON unescaping:
;    backslash: \, A: A

; Now JSON escape the string.
$oSb.Encode("json","utf-8")
ConsoleWrite($oSb.GetAsString() & @CRLF)

; After JSON escaping:
;    backslash: \\, A: A

; Note: The "A" is not escaped to "\u0041" because there is no need.
; The "\uXXXX" format would be produced for non-printable control chars.