Style question: I have some text to process that n...

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[naitbit]

Style question:
I have some text to process that needs some easy one to one replacements.
One of the replacement is changing escaped quote \" to just quote "
...I cannot find a readable way to write that down as Pair.
I came up with 3 ways to write that down and all of them are borderline unreadable:

"\\\"" to "\""

"""\"""" to """""""

Pair("""
    \"
    """.trimIndent(),
    """
    "
    """.trimIndent())

[naitbit]

It also does not help that Android Studio uses same color for """" as for String content.

[Eric Martori]

this should work:
'\"'.toString() to '"'.toString()

[Eric Martori]

if you don't need the pair to explitly be `String`s you can remove the .toString()

[naitbit]

So just characters? Yeah that looks better. Thanks.

[karelpeeters]

Except that the first one is just " now. I'd say your original first ones are pretty readable, doesn't AS highlight the escape sequence in orange?

[Eric Martori]

right, didn't try it:
"\\"+'"' to '"'.toString() this actually works, but is not really much more readable

[naitbit]

Yeah, I've noticed that first one stopped being 2 characters only after I've pasted it to tests yesterday..so I think that only proves that it was not perfectly readable.
For tripple quotes """ AS displays whole String in green, for single " it display whole content in orange, so first version has "reasonable" highlighting.

[naitbit]

Oh well, it is not that unreadable, and pretty small so I can write a comment there..

[naitbit]

Also tests do check this.