Decode url string in javascript

Question

I have this string:

http:\/\/www.google.com\/

And i want to change the url to :

http://www.google.com/

With :

url = url.replace(/\\//gi, "/");

But it give me empty string.

Any idea how i can fix it?

by fixing the rege to /\\\//g: url.replace(/\\\//g,'/'), escape both the backslash and the regex delimiting forward slash — Elias Van Ootegem
– Elias Van Ootegem, Commented Jul 24, 2013 at 12:31

Vishal Suthar · Accepted Answer · 2013-07-24 12:34:30Z

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You need an extra backward slash. \

You could try this:

var url = 'http:\/\/www.google.com\/';
url.replace(/\\\//gi, "/");

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answered Jul 24, 2013 at 12:34

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Alnitak · Accepted Answer · 2013-07-24 12:31:47Z

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Try:

window.unescape('http:\/\/www.google.com\/')

Note however that this is not strictly URL encoding that has been applied to this string, because the / character is perfectly legal there.

Did it perhaps come from JSON, where the / character is supposed to be escaped?

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pawel · Accepted Answer · 2013-07-24 12:35:56Z

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You're looking for decodeURI

decodeURI('http:\/\/www.google.com\/')
//"http://www.google.com/"

answered Jul 24, 2013 at 12:35

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Ankur Lathi · Accepted Answer · 2013-07-24 12:49:25Z

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Use decodeURIComponent() function which decodes a URI component.

var url="http:\/\/www.google.com\/";
url=decodeURIComponent(url);

answered Jul 24, 2013 at 12:49

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