How to split escape character \ in Javascript

Question

How to split escape character in this string?

already tried doing this

str = str.split('\\');

console.log(str);

this is the output

I want an output something like this

please help. thank you.

@WiktorStribiżew I dont understand what do you mean theres no literal \ — flyingpluto7, Sep 27 '17 at 11:19
When writing a question, you should include code in the form of **text** and *not* pictures. — Quentin, Sep 27 '17 at 11:20
See the ["Get backslashes inside a string - Javascript"](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10041998/get-backslashes-inside-a-string-javascript) question. — Wiktor Stribiżew, Sep 27 '17 at 11:29

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 27 '17 at 11:19

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The escape character is consumed when the string literal is parsed so there are no \ characters in the string to replace.

It is too late to fix this programmatically. You need to edit the original source code to represent \ characters as \\.

answered Sep 27 '17 at 11:19

Quentin

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 27 '17 at 11:21

You can't create a string like this, you have to use the double backslash.

var str = "..\..\common\core\services\shared.service";
console.log(str); // "....commoncoreservicesshared.service"

// Correct way
var str = "..\\..\\common\\core\\services\\shared.service";
console.log(str); // "..\..\common\core\services\shared.service"
// Then use this:
str.replace(/\\/g, '/');

How to split escape character \ in Javascript

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