javascript - issue with replacing back to forward slash if it exists in string

Question

I am struggling with the following:

    if(typeof value == "string" && value.match(//)){
        value = value.replace(/\/g, "/");
    }

what I am trying to achieve is to find if string contains any back slash . if yes I need to replace it with forward slash but the above does not work and gives me compilation error. Any help is appreciated

Answer 1

While it may not make sense to replace escaped characters in a string, you could use String.raw to ensure the escaped characters are treated as literals.

Snippet:

let value = String.raw`luke abcd 
 	 ssas.`;

if (typeof value === "string" && value.match(/\/)) {
  value = value.replace(/\/g, "/");
}

console.info(value);