How to replace character in URL string?

Question

How can I convert the following URL string

[IpAddress]/Folder/\\2014\\5\\5\\abc\\\\cde\\efg\\\\IR12345676765454554\\123456.jpg]

to

[IpAddress]/Folder/2014/5/5/abc/cde/efg/IR12345676765454554/123456.jpg]

Thanks in advance.

possible duplicate of Replacing all occurrences of a string in JavaScript — Dave
– Dave, Commented Sep 10, 2014 at 16:24
Don't think all the replacements are equal here. At one place /\\ is replaced with only /, then \\ is replaced with / and again \\\\ is replaced with /. Its not clear what the actual objective is — nitigyan
– nitigyan, Commented Sep 10, 2014 at 17:05

Denys Séguret · Accepted Answer · 2014-09-10 17:07:54Z

1

It looks like you want to replace every sequence of / and \ into a single /. Here's a way to do it :

str = str.replace(/[\/\\]+/g, '/');

EDIT

for your new question in which you don't want to replace the double / of "http://" (and I guess "file://", etc), you can do this :

str = str.replace(/(:?)([\/\\]+)/g, function(_,d,s){ return d ? d+s : '/' });

answered Sep 10, 2014 at 16:23

Denys Séguret

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