Escaped double quotes are displayed as escaped

[hefroy]

It's necessary to escape double quotes when they are contained in actions (or state names). However the escaping is currently being rendered rather than un-escaped.

Expected Behavior

The escaped double quotes are changed to double quotes.

Current Behavior

The escaped double quotes are displayed as escaped double quotes.

Possible Solution

The escaping should be stripped.

Steps to Reproduce

a -> b : "/call_function_with_string(\"a string\");";

Context

It's possible the action is calling a function with a string argument.

Your Environment

https://state-machine-cat.js.org/
Version: 7.0.2

[sverweij]

@hefroy thanks for finding & reporting this! Fix is on its way.

[sverweij]

@hefroy I've deployed a new version on live (https://state-machine-cat.js.org) in which this issue is fixed - npm will follow suit in about 5 minutes.

=> Could you let me know in case this doesn't solve your issue?

[hefroy]

Hi @sverweij, thanks for the very fast response! Glad to help out, I really like what you've done here.
Yep, your fix looks good to me!

[hefroy]

One last thought about this one: do you think it's worth mandating that the escape character '\' is also escaped? About the only reason to do would be for when you have a '\' character at the end of your action string, which will probably never be the case, apart from a weird comment such as:

a -> b : "my_action(); // Here's a bat emoji /|\ ^._.^ /|\";

But it probably isn't worth making users do this for such a slim use-case. What do you think?