I want to replace "\" with "/" in a javascript string.

var p = "D:\upload\date\csv\sample.csv";

to:

var p = "D:/upload/date/csv/sample.csv";

But I am getting error in first line itself. "SyntaxError: malformed Unicode character escape sequence".

How to do this ? Please help. Thanks.

I want to replace "\" with "/" in a javascript string.

var p = "D:\upload\date\csv\sample.csv";

to:

var p = "D:/upload/date/csv/sample.csv";

But I am getting error in first line itself. "SyntaxError: malformed Unicode character escape sequence".

How to do this ? Please help. Thanks.

• javascript
• string
• replace

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The first one should be var p = "D:\\upload\\date\\csv\\sample.csv";

A single \ is for escaping (or other stuff). In your case the \upload is a problem because \u would indicate an unicode character.

To replace, use: p = p.replace(/\\/g, '/');

var p = 'D:\\upload\\date\\csv\\sample.csv';
p = p.replace(/\\/g, '/');

also

p=p.split("\\").join("/");