Eliminating backslashes from JavaScript strings

Question

Using JavaScript I would like to eliminate \\ .
Currently I get back \\"Sequence\\" , but would like to remove \\ and get "Sequence" instead. Tried *.replace(/\\\\/g, ''); , but it did not work.

Answer 1

Remember, in JavaScript \\ is an escape character. So when you say

\"Sequence\"

I'm guessing the string is actually "<double quote>Sequence<double quote>"

In other words, there is no back slash for you to remove.

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Or, if I'm reading the question wrongly, note that replace does NOT modify the string in question. So you wouldn't do

foo.replace(/\\/g, '');

but rather

foo = foo.replace(/\\/g, '');