no-useless-escape

Disallow unnecessary escape characters

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Using the recommended config from @eslint/js in a configuration file enables this rule

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Some problems reported by this rule are manually fixable by editor suggestions

Escaping non-special characters in strings, template literals, and regular expressions doesn’t have any effect, as demonstrated in the following example:

let foo = "hol\a"; // > foo = "hola"
let bar = `${foo}\!`; // > bar = "hola!"
let baz = /\:/ // same functionality with /:/
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Rule Details

This rule flags escapes that can be safely removed without changing behavior.

Examples of incorrect code for this rule:

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/*eslint no-useless-escape: "error"*/

"\'";
'\"';
"\#";
"\e";
`\"`;
`\"${foo}\"`;
`\#{foo}`;
/\!/;
/\@/;
/[\[]/;
/[a-z\-]/;
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Examples of correct code for this rule:

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/*eslint no-useless-escape: "error"*/

"\"";
'\'';
"\x12";
"\u00a9";
"\371";
"xs\u2111";
`\``;
`\${${foo}}`;
`$\{${foo}}`;
/\\/g;
/\t/g;
/\w\$\*\^\./;
/[[]/;
/[\]]/;
/[a-z-]/;
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When Not To Use It

If you don’t want to be notified about unnecessary escapes, you can safely disable this rule.

Version

This rule was introduced in ESLint v2.5.0.

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