C# Escape / Unescape
Escape any text into a safe C# string literal, or unescape a C# string back to plain text — all in your browser.
Last updated: May 30, 2026
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C# Escape / Unescape converts text to and from the escaped form used inside C# string literals. When you paste raw text, it adds the backslash escapes C# requires — \\ for a backslash, \" for a quote, \n, \r, \t, plus C#-specific escapes like \0, \a and \v — so the result can be dropped straight into double-quoted C# source. Unescape does the reverse, decoding \n, \uXXXX, \xH..H and \UXXXXXXXX back to the original characters.
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How to Use C# Escape / Unescape
Paste your text into the input box
Choose Escape to build a C# literal, or Unescape to decode one
Optionally enable \uXXXX escaping for non-ASCII characters
Copy the output into your C# code
Common Use Cases
- Embedding a Windows file path or regex into a C# string without breaking it.
- Pasting multi-line text into a C# string literal safely.
- Decoding an escaped C# string from a log or config back to readable text.
- Converting non-ASCII characters to \uXXXX for ASCII-only C# source.
Example Input and Output
Escape a Windows path and a multi-line message for a C# string literal.
C:\temp\log.txt
Line twoC:\\temp\\log.txt\nLine twoHow This Tool Works
The tool scans your text character by character, replacing characters that are special in C# string literals with their escape sequences (or reversing that mapping when unescaping), entirely in the browser.
Technical Stack
C#-specific escapes
Unlike many languages, C# supports \a (bell), \v (vertical tab) and \0 (null), all of which this tool handles.
Privacy
Processing is fully client-side — nothing is sent to a server.