Example: Unescape special characters

public static int main () {
// Output:
// `` Oh please, don't call me human.``
// `` Just "Doctor" would do very nicely, thank you.``
string escaped = "\\tOh please, don't call me human.\\n\\tJust \\\"Doctor\\\" would do very nicely, thank you.".compress ();
print ("%s\n", escaped);
return 0;
}

 valac --pkg glib-2.0 string.compress.vala

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