ARM DS-5 Debugger Command Reference: set escape-strings

This command controls how special characters in strings are printed on the debugger command-line.

set escape-strings off | on

Where:

off: Specifies that any backslash characters in strings are treated as escape sequences. For example, if the string contains "\t" then this is printed as a tab character.
This is the default.
on: Specifies that any backslashes in strings are not treated as escape sequences and are instead output literally. For example, if the string contains "\t" then this is printed as a "\" character followed by a "t" character.

Example 106. set escape-strings

set escape-strings on

output "Say \"hello\""

“Say \“hello\””

set escape-strings off

output "Say \"hello\""

"Say ”Hello"”

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