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Using JavaScript to Remove Forward Slash From String

June 22, 2022 Leave a Comment

In JavaScript, to remove a forward slash from a string, the easiest way is to use the JavaScript String replace() method.

var someString = "/This is /a /string with forward slashes/";

someString = someString.replace(/\//g, '');

console.log(someString);

#Output:
This is a string with forward slashes

Since forward slashes are special characters we must escape them by putting a backslash in front of them, as seen in the code above.

Notice in the replace method above, that instead of using .replace("\/", '') we use replace(/\//g, ''). If we used the expression "\/" in the replace function, it only replace the FIRST instance of a forward slash. Using the regular expression /\//g makes it so we replace ALL instances of a forward slash in the string.


When using string variables in JavaScript, we can easily perform string manipulation to change the value of the string variables.

One such manipulation is to remove characters from a string variable. Forward slashes can be troubling characters to deal with in string variables.

We can easily remove forward slashes from a string in JavaScript.

The easiest way to get rid of a forward slash in a string using JavaScript is with the JavaScript String replace() function.

The replace() function takes two arguments: the substring we want to replace, and the replacement substring. In this case, to remove forward slashes, we pass the forward slash (“\/”) character as the first argument and an empty string as the second argument.

Below is our example again of how you can remove forward slashes from strings in JavaScript using the replace() function.

var someString = "/This is /a /string with forward slashes/";

someString = someString.replace(/\//g, '');

console.log(someString);

#Output:
This is a string with forward slashes

Hopefully this article has been useful for you to learn how to use JavaScript to remove a forward slash from string.

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