Question: What is String.translateEscapes() in Java 15?

Occasionally we get to deal with a string that contains escaped escape sequences, such as the following:

String s = "foo\\nbar\\tbuzz\\\\";System.out.println(s);

The output looks like this:

foo\nbar\tbuzz\\

Sometimes, however, we want to display the evaluated escape sequences: a newline instead of "\n", a tab instead of "\t", and a backslash instead of "\".

Until now, we had to rely on third-party libraries such as Apache Commons Text for this:

System.out.println(StringEscapeUtils.unescapeJava(s));

Starting from Java 15, we can avoid the additional dependency and use the JDK method String.translateEscapes():

System.out.println(s.translateEscapes());

The output now reads:

foobar     buzz