Jira REST API v2 - Task description formatting

Question

I'm using Jira REST API v2 to retrieve the task description. But the result consists of lots of garbage like \n, \t and special Jira formatting symbols. Is there any approach to format the result string into a human readable format?

Answer 1

Actually isn't garbage. There are Special Character Sequences, to keep the format that user give when write in the editor. I recomend not delete it but if you want you can remove, for exaple with regex.

An example: How to remove special characters from a string?