How to remove special character (:\) from string

[Vinayak Nikam]

Hi All,

Need a script to remove special character specially ":\" from string. Due to this special characters my API is not working.

I have tried below scripts but not working please suggest.

var str = "F:\";
var test = str.replace(/[^\d\w]/gi, '');
gs.print("Str: " + str + "\ntest: " + test);

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var str = "F:\";
var test = str.replace(/[&\/\\#,+()$~%.'":*?<>{}]/g, '');
gs.print("Str: " + str + "\ntest: " + test);

Thanks in Advance..

Vinayak

[Chuck Tomasi]

Instead of removing them, how about escaping them? Normally \ indicates a special character follows (e.g. \t is a tab). If you want to represent a \, then it needs to be \\. Does your API accept that? If so, then it's a simple matter of replacing \ with \\ like:

var test = str.replace('\', '\\');

[Sudhanshu Talw1]

str.replace(":\","");

Hope it helps

Thanks

Sudhanshu

[Vinayak Nikam]

Hi Sudhanshu,

Thanks for your reply, this is not working.

[Chuck Tomasi]

If you really must remove the colon and the backslash, you'll need to do it in two steps. 

str.replace(':\', ''); fails because backslash escapes the second quote and creates a syntax issue.

str.replace(':\\', ''); // removes \, but not colon, so...

var v1 = str.replace(':', '');

var v2 = v1.replace('\\', '');