Question

I have a String:
c:\build\target.

This comes from an external source, passed directly as it is. I cannot modify it before using it in a javascript.

However \b and \t are special characters, but I’d simply like to print it (or work with it) as it looks like, not as it is interpreted c:uild arget.

How is it possible?

Answer 1

You could try:

string = "c:\build\target";
string = string.replace(/[\n]/g,'\\n');
string = string.replace(/[\r]/g,'\\r');
string = string.replace(/[\t]/g,'\\t');
string = string.replace(/[\b]/g,'\\b');
string = string.replace(/[\f]/g,'\\f');
console.log(string);​

But there maybe some other problems, because you have to catch all the other special chars