Replace “\\” with “\” in a string in C#

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I suspect your string already actually only contains a single backslash, but you’re looking at it in the debugger which is escaping it for you into a form which would be valid as a regular string literal in C#.

If print it out in the console, or in a message box, does it show with two backslashes or one?

If you actually want to replace a double backslash with a single one, it’s easy to do so:

text = text.Replace(@"\\", @"\");

… but my guess is that the original doesn’t contain a double backslash anyway. If this doesn’t help, please give more details.

EDIT: In response to the edited question, your stringToBeReplaced only has a single backslash in. Really. Wherever you’re seeing two backslashes, that viewer is escaping it. The string itself doesn’t have two backslashes. Examine stringToBeReplaced.Length and count the characters.

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