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I need replace a character in a string for a backslash,

example

var string = "hello world!"; string.replace("!","\");

help me please

thanks!!!!

asked Feb 1, 2016 at 21:34
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    string.replace("!","\\"); Commented Feb 1, 2016 at 21:43

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You can use:

string = string.replace(/!/g, '\\');

backslash needs to be escaped with another backslash and better to use regex /!/ in order to replace all the occurrences of !

answered Feb 1, 2016 at 21:36
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I'm pretty sure that's a dupe, but haven't found the proper dupe ;)
Probably yes as dup finding isn't very easy here

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