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Trying to get a simple string replace to work using a Groovy script. Tried various things, including escaping strings in various ways, but can't figure it out.
String file ="C:\\Test\\Test1\\Test2\\Test3\\"
String afile = file.toString() println
"original string: " + afile
afile.replace("\\\\", "/")
afile.replaceAll("\\\\", "/") println
"replaced string: " + afile
This code results in:
original string: C:\Test\Test1\Test2\Test3\
replaced string: C:\Test\Test1\Test2\Test3\
The answer, as inspired by Sorrow, looks like this:
// first, replace backslashes
String afile = file.toString().replaceAll("\\\\", "/")
// then, convert backslash to forward slash
String fixed = afile.replaceAll("//", "/")
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replaceAll("\\/", "/");
To remove all backslashes from a string: Call the replaceAll method, passing it a string containing 2 backslashes as the first parameter and an empty string as the second - str. replaceAll('\\', '') . The replaceAll method returns a new string with all of the matches replaced.
Groovy - replaceAll() Replaces all occurrences of a captured group by the result of a closure on that text.
str = str. replace("\\", ""); replaceAll() treats the first argument as a regex, so you have to double escape the backslash. replace() treats it as a literal string, so you only have to escape it once.
replace returns a different string. In Java Strings cannot be modified, so you need to assign the result of replacing to something, and print that out.
String other = afile.replaceAll("\\\\", "/")
println "replaced string: " + other
Edited: as Neftas pointed in the comment, \ is a special character in regex and thus have to be escaped twice.
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