Escape String - Visual Studio Code extension

Pasting strings into source code file can be challenging because special characters must be escaped. This Escape String VSCode extension helps you with that by adding Paste escaped string command.

Features

Paste escaped string is available by right clicking on a text editor for supported types of files:

• C
• C++
• C#
• JSON
• JavaScript
• Python
• TypeScript

It will paste content of clipboard as a string, in format specific for given file/programming language, with special characters escaped.

In this animation you can see that "original" text (command line) is copied to clipboard and then pasted to a .cs and .js file. The pasted string is formatted as verbatim string in C# and as template literal in JavaScript:

Known issues

For C++ strings are escaped using raw string literal. If original string contains default end-sequence ") then we'll try one of pre-defined delimiters. If the string contains all pre-defined end-sequences, we will use the original string. Example: )" )!" )@" )#" )$" )%" )^" )&" )*" )~" )`" )-" )_" )=" )+"