How to replace \" with " using regex?

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I have an API that returns an HTML string but it has some extra characters in the API and I want to replace that with something else.

<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0\">

I want to replace \" with " using that using replace so that it becomes

<meta name="viewport" content="initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0">

What is the regex string.replace() for doing the above task?

What is the source of your input string on line 2 above? Those backslashes look to be escaping characters for the literal double quotes which follow them. That is, the backslashes aren't really "there." — Tim Biegeleisen
– Tim Biegeleisen, Commented Apr 13, 2021 at 4:38

Fakt309 · Accepted Answer · 2021-04-13 04:42:27Z

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use the \\ into your regexp

var text = '<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0\">';

var result  = text.replace(/\\"/g, '"');

console.log(result);

answered Apr 13, 2021 at 4:42

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DedaDev · Accepted Answer · 2021-04-13 04:39:47Z

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So you have to escape the \ with another \

yourstring.replace(/\\"/, '"')

answered Apr 13, 2021 at 4:39

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DArrow · Accepted Answer · 2021-04-13 04:47:35Z

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You can simply use this without RegEx

<?php
$a = "<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0\">";
$b = str_replace('\"', '"', $a);
var_dump($b);

edited Apr 13, 2021 at 4:47

answered Apr 13, 2021 at 4:41

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