Regular Expressions....

Hi,

I need a regular expression that replaces all backslashes in a string with double backslashes.
In fact I want to use it in JavaScript, but as Perl is the real text search and replace language I thought I'd ask it here.

I think my regular expression to detect the backslashes should be something like this : ////
But I don't know if this detects all the occurrences of the backslash in the string.

Any help on this would be highly appreciated!

Thanks,
Iwan

Hi, vdschoor

The following codes will work. I tested myself!
and backslash is \ not / isn't it ? ^^;

#!/usr/bin/perl
$tar = "ja\\ja\\";
print $tar;
print "\n";
$tar =~ s/\\/\\\\/g;
print $tar;
exit;

The result is

ja\ja\
ja\\ja\\