In essence, this is the workaround I've been using. Preswapping backslashes, running the replace, replaces the backslashes. I was hoping there might be a more optimal way, akin to string literals from Python, for example.
-Brad
> -------Original Message-------
> If you know what you're looking for, you can still process the incoming
> string with literals. For example, it's unknown what the incoming variable
> 'str' contains, but I know I want to convert backslashes to forward slashes.
> So, dump 'str' into a replace while searching for a literal backslash.
> Avoids the double escape issue.
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> var str = "C:\\tmp\\backup\\whatever";
>
> main( str );
>
>
> function main( str )
> {
> LogMessage( str.replace( /\\/g, "/" ) );
> return(0);
> }
> -----------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> Matt
>
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> RE: Slashing back at RegExp
> Date : Tue, 25 Oct 2005 17:50:24 +0000
> To : XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> From : "brad" <brad(at)cg-soup.com>
> Subject : RE: Slashing back at RegExp
>
> Except in the case where you are running the replace or match function on an
> input string variable.
>
> function StrRep(inStr, repStr){
> var re = new ReExp(inStr);
> ...
> }
>
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