How can I unescape backslashes in a Perl string?

Question

I need the to convert the input address to specified format

#!/usr/bin/perl
my $file_path =\"\\\\\\abc.com\\a\\t\\temp\\L\\\\\";

#---- Help in this regex
$file_         


        

Answer 1

If your \ in my $file_path are not the escape characters,

s/^\\\\|\\\\$/\\/g