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Replace all instances of \ with /

Hello,

I'm trying to replace all the instances of \ with /.

I have tried doing:

$content =~ s/\///g;
and
$content =~ tr/\///;

and many various versions trying to escape by adding an extra \ or two!!

Can anyone let me know if it's possible?

Thank you for your help and hints!
Best regards,

prady_21

This works well
hope it helps

$value =~ s/\//\\/g;

noshankus

ASKER

Nope! Sorry... but you sure you got the right syntax?

I want to replace all \ with /

Those damn commands hurt my eyes!!

noshankus

ASKER

Nope! Sorry... but you sure you got the right syntax?

I want to replace all \ with /

Those damn commands hurt my eyes!!

prady_21

i just tested it in my system, it is working absolutely fine
just cut and copy what is given, it shld work

noshankus

ASKER

Damn! I was so hoping you were wrong! :)

It still doesn't work on my system. I just get a space instead.
The input is some\thing and when it does it's stuff, I get some thing.

I can't even test it on my local system, as I'm having to do this online through a free provider. - Maybe that has something to do with it... but all the other swaps worked. Damn!

Any other ideas how I might go about this? - Extra help appreciated :)

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prady_21

and that is the reason why you are getting spaces in your output and not \

noshankus

ASKER

Oh I see.

Well, the problem is that the string could be quite long, as it's usually a path to a file:

some\thing\else\and\more\etc.jsp

So, you are saying that if the string (which is being sent from a form text area) is too long, then it will recognise all the \'s as spaces?

How would I get around that? :)

Thanks for your time, I really appreciate it :)

noshankus

ASKER

I just did another swap that swapped the spaces with /

LOL! You'd think it would be easier!

Anyway, thank you very much for your help!

prady_21

Can you just give an idea of from where you are getting the text from, and can you just put a piece of code

noshankus

ASKER

Much appreciated :)

prady_21

Can you just give an idea of from where you are getting the text from, and can you just put a piece of code

prady_21

Well if you would like it, what you can do is, when you are getting the test, if there is some way you can pass the text as
$content = "some\\value\\somewhere\\something";

then there would be no problem