How to escape backslash in JavaScript?

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open console and type

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

fails because the slash in the string isn’t really in the string, it’s escaping ‘

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

works because it takes one slash and finds it.

your regex works.

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