Java: Convert String “\uFFFF” into char

Question

Is there a standard method to convert a string like \"\\uFFFF\" into character meaning that the string of six character contains a presentation of one unicode character?

Answer 1

If you are parsing input with Java style escaped characters you might want to have a look at StringEscapeUtils.unescapeJava. It handles Unicode escapes as well as newlines, tabs etc.

String s = StringEscapeUtils.unescapeJava("\\u20ac\\n"); // s contains the euro symbol followed by newline