Printing a quoted string

[cc]

On Tuesday, 22 March 2022 at 07:18:00 UTC, cc wrote:
> On Sunday, 20 March 2022 at 09:42:44 UTC, Caten wrote:
>> Hi, I also need a function to "unquote" string, like this:
>> ```d
>> assert(unquote(`\n`)=="\n");
>> ```
>> Is there a way to do that?
>
> I rolled my own for that recently:
> ```d
> string dequote(string str) @safe pure {
> 	if (str.length < 2)
> 		return str;
> 	if ((str[0] == '"' || str[0] == '\'' || str[0] == '`') && 
> str[$-1] == str[0]) {
> 		return str[1 .. $-1];
> 	}
> 	return str;
> }
> ```

Oops, I misread what you were asking for.  Was thinking quotes 
like quotation marks, not backslashes.