(Xojo Plugin) Decode 2-digit Hex Escaped

Demonstrates how to replace escaped us-ascii chars such as \x7b and \x22 with the chars.

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// We have the following string with some us-ascii chars escaped like this:
Dim s As String
s = "\x7b\x22responseContext\x22:\x7b\x22"

// Note: The above escaping does not conform to any standard format (as far as I know).
// Chilkat does not have anything to decode from the above.
// However, we can 1st transform into a standard format, and then decode..

// JSON escapes chars outside us-ascii like this:  "Hello, \ud83d\ude03!"
// We can transform the above to this:  "\u007b\u0022responseContext\u0022:\u007b\u0022"
// And then decode..

Dim sb As New Chilkat.StringBuilder

Dim success As Boolean
success = sb.Append(s)
Dim numReplaced As Int32
numReplaced = sb.Replace("\x","\u00")

// Now decode from "json" escapes
success = sb.Decode("json","utf-8")

// Show the decoded string
System.DebugLog(sb.GetAsString())

// Here's the result: {"responseContext":{"