Replace double backslashes with a single backslash in javascript

Question

I have the following problem:

I have a script that executes an AJAX request to a server, the server returns C:\\backup\\ in the preview. However, the r

Answer 1

This should do it: "C:\\backup\\".replace(/\\\\/g, '\\')

In the regular expression, a single \ must be escaped to \\, and in the replacement \ also.