Remove all Backslashes from a String in JavaScript

Remove all Backslashes from a String #

To remove all backslashes from a string:

1. Call the replaceAll method, passing it a string containing 2 backslashes as the first parameter and an empty string as the second - str.replaceAll('\\', '').
2. The replaceAll method returns a new string with all of the matches replaced.

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const str = '1\\2\\3';

const replaced = str.replaceAll('\\', '');
console.log(replaced); // 👉️ '123'

The parameters we passed to the String.replaceAll method are:

1. a substring we want to match in the string. Notice that we need to escape the backslash with another backslash.
2. the replacement string, in our case an empty string

Note that the replaceAll method does not change the contents of the original string, it returns a new string with the matches replaced. Strings are immutable in JavaScript.

To remove all backslashes from a string:

1. Call the replace method, passing it a regular expression matching all backslashes as the first parameter and an empty string as the second.
2. The replace method will return a new string, which contains no backslashes.

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// Supported in IE 6-11

const str = '1\\2\\3';

const replaced = str.replace(/\\/g, '');
console.log(replaced); // 👉️ 123

The String.replace method takes the following parameters:

1. a regular expression we want to match in the string. Again, we have to escape the backslash with another backslash
2. the replacement string, in our case an empty string

We use the g (global) flag, because we want to match all occurrences of a backslash and not just the first occurrence.