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I have a string \"somedata\". I want to remove "\" character to result as "somedata". I tried var mystring = mystring.replace("\","");,however the result is incorrect. Can anyone help?

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  • Can you add complete code Commented May 3, 2016 at 13:23
  • @Tushar The wrong way of escaping is the problem here. Commented May 3, 2016 at 13:24

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try following: 

mystring.replace(/\\/g,"");
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The \ is an escape character. To use \, you need to escape it twice:

mystring.replace("\\","");

Explanation

When you give this:

mystring.replace("\","");

The JavaScript thinks, you wanna insert a " there and will not find the ending double quotes. The string will be incomplete here.

var some = '\\"somedata\\"';
alert("Before: " + some);
some = some.replace("\\", "");
alert("After: " + some);

But the above code replaces only one occurrence. You need to use RegEx to replace all the occurrences.

var some = '\\"somedata\\"';
alert("Before: " + some);
some = some.replace(/\\/g, "");
alert("After: " + some);

You can use the g tag for global.

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