Remove backslash and keep punctuation

Asked Jan 01 '21 at 18:21

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I have str1: "I can\'t do that." How can I get from str1 to str2: "I can't do that."?

I have tried str2 = str1.replace("\", "") but it doesn't work.

Thank you!

asked Jan 01 '21 at 18:21

jo_

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`replace('\\','')` – khelwood Jan 01 '21 at 18:24

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Try this:

str1.replace("\\", "")

answered Jan 01 '21 at 18:23

dimay

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I have tried that too, but it doesn't seem to work. – jo_ Jan 01 '21 at 18:25
In my case all works fine. – dimay Jan 01 '21 at 18:27
okay, I'll try again. Thank you! – jo_ Jan 01 '21 at 18:30