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FUNCTIONS / STRING FUNCTIONS AND OPERATORS

unistr

Evaluate escaped Unicode characters in the argument.

Signatures & examples

unistr ( text ) → text

Evaluate escaped Unicode characters in the argument. Unicode characters can be specified as \XXXX (4 hexadecimal digits), \+XXXXXX (6 hexadecimal digits), \uXXXX (4 hexadecimal digits), or \UXXXXXXXX (8 hexadecimal digits). To specify a backslash, write two backslashes. All other characters are taken literally.

unistr('d\0061t\+000061') → data

unistr('d\u0061t\U00000061') → data

Version history 1

PG 13 → 14added

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