Parsing string to string?

[monarch_dodra]

On Wednesday, 27 February 2013 at 20:37:01 UTC, Lubos Pintes 
wrote:
> And what about the opposite way? I like how Python is 
> representing strings. Good when you want to partially inspect 
> something binary.
> Dňa 27. 2. 2013 19:39 monarch_dodra  wrote / napísal(a):
>> I have a text file, that contains text with escaped 
>> characters, eg:
>>
>> //----
>> hello\tworld.
>> this line\ncontains a break.
>> and this one a\x20binary character.
>> and this one\u0020an escaped unicode.
>> //----
>>
>> The idea is that once parse line by line, I want 4 strings (1 
>> for each
>> line), but with the escaped characters parsed to their normal 
>> value.
>>
>> I'm having trouble doing this efficiently. I can do it with
>> std.conv.parse, but provided I preppend and append a double 
>> quote to my
>> strings first. It's not the most efficient way to do it, but 
>> it works.
>> It's kind of hackish though :/
>>
>> I was wondering if there anything in phobos that could do this 
>> more
>> naturally? Or in an "idiomatic" fashion?

using formattedWrite, I can print it out the same way, but there 
will also be the trailing " " I'll have to chop off manually 
(hence why I have to pass through a formatted write first, as 
opposed to a straight up writef).