Javascript String escape character

Question

Hi I have javascript string like this: let a = "\"2\" Kilogram".

I want it to look like this a = "2 Kilogram".

I have used unescape and str.replace but the response is like " "2" Kilogram".

Answer 1

You can simply replace the double quote like:

a = a.replace(/"/g, '')

Demo:

let a = "\"2\" Kilogram"

console.log("Before:", a)
a = a.replace(/"/g, '')
console.log("After:", a)

Answer 2

 let a = "\"2\" Kilogram";
 console.log(a.replace(/"/g, ''))

Answer 3

You can use regex to replace \" like below

let a = "\"2\" Kilogram"

a = a.replace(/\"/g, "")

console.log(a)

Hope this helps.

Answer 4

If you generelly want to remove all kind of special characters of the English language in a string and not only "" you may use:

    let string2replace = "\"2\" Kilogram";
    var desiredstring = string2replace.replace(/[^\w\s]/gi, '');
    alert(desiredstring);

Answer 5

let a = "\"2\" Kilogram";
a = a.replace(/\"/g, "");
console.log(a);

Replacing using regex will help you here as a pro.

\" is to be replaced and g is used as global iterator which will return only once all possibilities have been replaced.

Answer 6

a = a.slice(0, 2)+a.slice(3, a.length)+'"';

Or just use single quotes so the inner double quotes are not interpolated when you set the value a in the first place ;)

let a ='"2 Kilogram";'