regex - How to replace backward slash to forward slash using java?

Question

I'm importing a CSV file to MySQL database. This can be done using java.mysql support for forward slash in file path. If user gives the path

c:uploaddatecsvsample.csv

MySQL doesn't support this type of path pattern. I want to search for backslashes in the path and replace them with a forward slash, to give this:

  c:/upload/date/csv/sample.csv

How is that done?

Answer 1

In java, use this:

str = str.replace("", "/");

Note that the regex version of replace, ie replaceAll(), is not required here; replace() still replaces all occurrences of the search term, but it searches for literal Strings, not regex matches.