javascript - How to prevent string auto escaping?

Question

I have a variable var a = '204444', and I want to remove . I need the result to be 204444.

I tried using a.replace(/\/g, ''), but the result is not what I wanted.

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66057230/how-to-prevent-string-auto-escaping

Answer 1

If you have control over the variable initialisation you can do this

var a = String.raw`204444`;
a.replace(/\/g, '');

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String/raw

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If you don't you can do this (but that doesn't work if you have leading 0s)

var a = '2304444';
a.charCodeAt(0).toString(8) + a.replace(/^./g, '');