jquery replacing special characters in a string

Question

I will replace c:\pictures\picture1.png to c:\\pictures\\picture1.png

i.e:

var data="c:\pictures\picture1.png"
data=data.raplace('\','\\');

in asp.net it can run with

data=data.replace('\\','\\\\');

when I use this method in jquery it replaced only the firs '\' character and it comes so:

c:\\pictures\picture1.png

how can I replace all '\' characters

Check out this thread http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9708653/jquery-javascript-find-and-replace-all-instances — Deepak Kumar Vasudevan, Mar 19 '13 at 14:55

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 19 '13 at 14:58

If you search for the \ using a regular expression, you can use the g flag at the end of the expression to indicate you want to do a "global" search.

Also, your example is off. Any time you want to use the literal \ you need to write it twice as in \\.

var data="c:\\pictures\\picture1.png"
data = data.replace(/\\/g,'\\\\')

sasi · Accepted Answer · 2013-03-19T15:04:22.553

2

you can perform a global replacement by using g..

The g modifier is used to perform a global match (find all matches rather than stopping after the first match).

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

data = data.replace(/\\/g,'\\\\')

edited Mar 19 '13 at 15:04

answered Mar 19 '13 at 14:58

sasi

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 19 '13 at 14:58

1

Expressions will help you here: http://jsfiddle.net/jC8hM/

var data = "c:\\pictures\\picture1.png"

alert(data);
data = data.replace(/\\/g, "\\\\");

alert(data);

To write a single instance of "\" you need to write "\". So to write "\", you need "\\".

answered Mar 19 '13 at 14:58

tymeJV

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