Regular expression to split string at '/' or '\' in javascript?

Question

I'm using the javascript's method "split()" to split a string at '\' or '/' characters. I searched some other posts to see how regular expressions work and tried this:

var text1 = "some/text";
var text2 = "some\\text2"
var words = text1.split(/\//);
var words2 = text2.split(/\\/);

Both work great, but When I try this one:

var text3 = "some\\other/text";
var words3 = text3.split(/\////);

It just don't work. I don't know what I'm missing here.

Stackoverflow's syntax highlighting should be a hint for why your version is not working :) — hugomg
– hugomg, Commented May 16, 2015 at 2:01

hugomg · Accepted Answer · 2015-05-16 01:58:39Z

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The regex you want is

/[\/\\]/

The [] means "one of these characters", \/ represents a forward slash and \\ represents a backward slash. Since \ and / are special characters in regular expressions, I had to escape them by escaping them with a preceding backslash.

answered May 16, 2015 at 1:58

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