Question

I have got string containing windows path to file. It looks something like this:

var path = 'c:\test\old\new\ring.txt';

Os and browser gave it to me. So I can not change it by manually writing ‘\’ in front of every ‘\’. Every ‘\’ is just ‘\,’ regular win path delimiter. Problem arises if ‘\’ is followed by t, r, n.

Then it becomes white space. But if I pass that as function parameter string is automatically changed in way that all \ are gone!

So, is there a way to somehow separate ‘\t’ ‘\n’ ‘\r’… to ‘\’ + char?

If not, is is possible to somehow escape ‘\’ so that they remain ‘\’? Like \ and not to become tab, new line, etc

edit:
Maybe I wasn’t clear enough.

Answer 1

Escape the backslash by doubling it: c:\\test\\etc.