2 * @fileoverview Rule to flag octal escape sequences in string literals.
3 * @author Ian Christian Myers
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17 description: "disallow octal escape sequences in string literals",
18 category: "Best Practices",
20 url: "https://eslint.org/docs/rules/no-octal-escape"
26 octalEscapeSequence: "Don't use octal: '\\{{sequence}}'. Use '\\u....' instead."
35 if (typeof node.value !== "string") {
39 // \0 represents a valid NULL character if it isn't followed by a digit.
40 const match = node.raw.match(
41 /^(?:[^\\]|\\.)*?\\([0-3][0-7]{1,2}|[4-7][0-7]|0(?=[89])|[1-7])/su
47 messageId: "octalEscapeSequence",
48 data: { sequence: match[1] }