Unable to replace backward slash "\" from a string

[Arpita14]

Hi All, 

I am trying to split/replace a string that has backward slash"\" but unable to get the desired result.

var strVal = "Au\Group\This group"
var newStr = strVal.replace(/\\/g,"/"); [ or var newStr = strVal.split("\'");]

gs.info(newStr)

**Script completed in scope : AuGroupThis group

Is there any other  way to achieve this. Any advise/inputs will be of great help.

Thank you.

[harshinielath]

I find the code but try this way and see:

// Replace any '\' in str1 with '/' and store the result in str2
re2 = new RegExp("\\\\","g"); 
str2 = str1.replace(re2,"/");

[Arpita14]

I have tried this and it does not work. It returns a single string.

[Greg42]

Hi Arpita,

var strVal = "Au\Group\This group"; <-- backslashed here are escaped straight away.

You will have to have double backslashes to make it work.

Try this:

var strVal = "Au\Group\This group";

strVal == "AuGroupThis group"; <-- this will evaluate to true.

This will work:

var strVal = "Au\\Group\\This group";
strVal.split("\\");

Wherever you get the data it will have to come in an escaped form not to be escaped.

Regards

Greg

[Arpita14]

Hi Greg, 

I see that the solution works if there are double backslashes, but i cant make any changes to the input string to have double backslash .

so is there no other way to remove a singe instance of backslash?

Thank you,