Using escape characters when reading from a file

I was simply experimenting with my understanding of escape characters and file I/O using a test text file. The text file initially contained several lines of text exactly like this:

Quote:
"\c0 Test"
"\c1 Test"
"\c2 Test"
"\c3 Test"
"\c4 Test"
"\c5 Test"
"\c6 Test"
"\c7 Test"
"\c8 Test"
"\c9 Test"

I then wrote a function like this:

function readTest()
{
   %file = new FileObject();
   %file.openForRead("test.dat");

   %line = 1;

   while(%line !$= "")
   {
      %line = %file.readline();
      echo(%line);
   }
}

When I run that in the console it outputs:

Quote:
"\c0 Test"
"\c1 Test"
"\c2 Test"
"\c3 Test"
"\c4 Test"
"\c5 Test"
"\c6 Test"
"\c7 Test"
"\c8 Test"
"\c9 Test"

instead of changing the color and outputing Test as appropriate. I thought maybe I needed to close off the color, so I changed it to:

Quote:
"\c0 Test\0"
"\c1 Test\0"
"\c2 Test\0"
"\c3 Test\0"
"\c4 Test\0"
"\c5 Test\0"
"\c6 Test\0"
"\c7 Test\0"
"\c8 Test\0"
"\c9 Test\0"

But then I just got the same output with a \0 on the end. I realized it was printing the quotes to the console, so I removed the quotes from the file lines.

Quote:
\c0 Test\0
\c1 Test\0
\c2 Test\0
\c3 Test\0
\c4 Test\0
\c5 Test\0
\c6 Test\0
\c7 Test\0
\c8 Test\0
\c9 Test\0

Then I still got the same output but without quotes. So my question is: What do I need to do to have my escape characters recognized as such from file input?

Thanks, Noah