}
        return Pattern.quote(s);
    }

    /**
     * Unescapes double backslashes in regex patterns.
     * Converts escaped backslashes (\\) back to single backslashes (\).
     *
     * @param s the string to unescape
     * @return the unescaped string
     */
    protected String unescape(final String s) {
        return s.replace("\\\\", "\\");
    }

    /**

```

### Text Processing and JSON
```java
import org.codelibs.core.text.*;

// JSON utilities with proper escaping
String escaped = JsonUtil.escape("Hello \"World\" with special chars");
String unescaped = JsonUtil.unescape(escaped);

// Text tokenization
Tokenizer tokenizer = new Tokenizer("field1,field2,field3", ",");
while (tokenizer.hasMoreTokens()) {
    String token = tokenizer.nextToken();
    // Process each token

        // Test that MIME type patterns work correctly as regex
        // This verifies the fix for SVG thumbnail generation issue
        // where image/svg+xml was not matching due to unescaped + character

        // SVG MIME type - the + must be escaped in regex
        String svgMimetype = "image/svg+xml";
        String svgPatternWrong = "image/svg+xml"; // Wrong: + means "one or more" in regex

                        inputs[i] = unescape(inputStrings.get(i)).trim();
                    }

                    final List<String> outputStrings = split(sides.get(1), ",");
                    outputs = new String[outputStrings.size()];
                    for (int i = 0; i < outputs.length; i++) {
                        outputs[i] = unescape(outputStrings.get(i)).trim();
                    }

    }

    @Test
    public void test_unescape() {
        GsaConfigParser parser = new GsaConfigParser();

        assertEquals("test\\", parser.unescape("test\\\\"));
        assertEquals("test", parser.unescape("test"));
        assertEquals("\\", parser.unescape("\\\\"));
    }

    @Test
    public void test_appendFilterPath() {
        GsaConfigParser parser = new GsaConfigParser();

          destIndex += escaped.length;
        }
        // If we dealt with an escaped character, reset the unescaped range.
        unescapedChunkStart = nextIndex;
      }
      index = nextEscapeIndex(s, nextIndex, end);
    }

    // Process trailing unescaped characters - no need to account for escaped
    // length or padding the allocation.
    int charsSkipped = end - unescapedChunkStart;

                    }
                    continue; // ignore empty lines and comments
                }

                final String inputStrings = line;
                final String input = unescape(inputStrings);

                if (input.length() > 0) {
                    id++;
                    final ProtwordsItem item = new ProtwordsItem(id, input);
                    if (updater != null) {

    }

    /**
     * <p>Unescapes any Java literals found in the <code>String</code> to a
     * <code>Writer</code>.</p> This is a slightly modified version of the
     * StringEscapeUtils.unescapeJava() function in commons-lang that doesn't
     * drop escaped separators (i.e '\,').
     *
     * @param str  the <code>String</code> to unescape, may be null
     * @return the processed string

    }

    /**
     * <p>Unescapes any Java literals found in the <code>String</code> to a
     * <code>Writer</code>.</p> This is a slightly modified version of the
     * StringEscapeUtils.unescapeJava() function in commons-lang that doesn't
     * drop escaped separators (i.e '\,').
     *
     * @param str  the <code>String</code> to unescape, may be null
     * @return the processed string

                    }
                    continue; // ignore empty lines and comments
                }

                final String inputStrings = line;
                final String input = unescape(inputStrings);

                if (input.length() > 0) {
                    id++;
                    final StopwordsItem item = new StopwordsItem(id, input);
                    if (updater != null) {