private fun Buffer.startsWith(prefix: Byte): Boolean = !exhausted() && this[0] == prefix

/**
 * Reads a double-quoted string, unescaping quoted pairs like `\"` to the 2nd character in each
 * sequence. Returns the unescaped string, or null if the buffer isn't prefixed with a
 * double-quoted string.
 */
@Throws(EOFException::class)
private fun Buffer.readQuotedString(): String? {
  require(readByte() == '\"'.code.toByte())

});
```

### 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()) {

    assertEquals("string with spaces", spaceEscaper.escape("string with spaces"));
  }

  /** Tests that if we add extra 'safe' characters they remain unescaped */
  public void testCustomEscaper() {
    UnicodeEscaper e = new PercentEscaper("+*/-", false);
    for (char c = 0; c < 128; c++) {
      if ((c >= '0' && c <= '9')
          || (c >= 'a' && c <= 'z')

    assertEquals("string with spaces", spaceEscaper.escape("string with spaces"));
  }

  /** Tests that if we add extra 'safe' characters they remain unescaped */
  public void testCustomEscaper() {
    UnicodeEscaper e = new PercentEscaper("+*/-", false);
    for (char c = 0; c < 128; c++) {
      if ((c >= '0' && c <= '9')
          || (c >= 'a' && c <= 'z')

	if !compareSignatureV2(signature, calculateSignatureV2(policy, cred.SecretKey)) {
		return cred, ErrSignatureDoesNotMatch
	}
	return cred, ErrNone
}

// Escape encodedQuery string into unescaped list of query params, returns error
// if any while unescaping the values.
func unescapeQueries(encodedQuery string) (unescapedQueries []string, err error) {
	for query := range strings.SplitSeq(encodedQuery, "&") {

        }
        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("\\\\", "\\");
    }

    /**

  @AndroidIncompatible // Android forbids null parent ClassLoader
  // https://github.com/google/guava/issues/2152
  public void testJarFileWithSpaces() throws Exception {
    URL url = makeJarUrlWithName("To test unescaped spaces in jar file name.jar");
    URLClassLoader classloader = new URLClassLoader(new URL[] {url}, null);
    assertThat(ClassPath.from(classloader).getTopLevelClasses()).isNotEmpty();
  }

        String[] result;

        // Escaped quotes within quoted value - DOES NOT get unquoted because pattern doesn't match
        value = "\"value with \"\"escaped\"\" quotes\"";
        result = KuromojiCSVUtil.parse(value);
        assertEquals(1, result.length);
        assertEquals("\"value with \"\"escaped\"\" quotes\"", result[0]);

                        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();
                    }

    }

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

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

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