Replace character in javascript

Question

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

example

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

help me please

thanks!!!!

anubhava · Accepted Answer · 2016-02-01 21:36:38Z

1

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

anubhava

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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