unescape

String
since 0.6.0

Arguments

  • string The string to unescape.

Returns

string the unescaped string.

The inverse of _.escape; this method converts the HTML entities &, <, >, ", and ' in string to their corresponding characters.

Note: No other HTML entities are unescaped. To unescape additional HTML entities use a third-party library like he.

Example of Lodash _.unescape

_.unescape('fred, barney, & pebbles');
// => 'fred, barney, & pebbles'