# How to get rid of escaped characters

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-get-rid-of-escaped-characters/127625>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [January 30, 2008, 11:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-get-rid-of-escaped-characters/127625 "2008-01-30T23:20:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![liquidrails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/a6a055/32.png) [@liquidrails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/liquidrails)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 11:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-get-rid-of-escaped-characters/127625/1 "2008-01-30T23:20:24Z")

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How do you get rid of unwanted escape characters that rails adds to a  
user inputted string?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![liquidrails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/a6a055/32.png) [@liquidrails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/liquidrails)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 5:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-get-rid-of-escaped-characters/127625/2 "2008-01-31T05:00:44Z")

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On Jan 30, 4:20 pm, Cheri R. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> How do you get rid of unwanted escape characters that rails adds to a  
> user inputted string?
> 
> ## Thanks
> 
> Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.

should be able to call the String#strip! method on it to remove  
newline characters, if that’s what you’re talking about.

Cheers,  
Chris

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**Author:** ![liquidrails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/a6a055/32.png) [@liquidrails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/liquidrails)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 4:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-get-rid-of-escaped-characters/127625/3 "2008-01-31T16:47:18Z")

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On Jan 30, 5:20 pm, Cheri R. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> How do you get rid of unwanted escape characters that rails adds to a  
> user inputted string?

Have a look at CGI.unescape()