Escaping backslash in string - javascript

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I need to show the name of the currently selected file  in  lt input type  file  gt  element     Everything is fine  the only problem is I m getting this kind of string  C  fakepath  typog rules pdf   browset automatically puts this as value for the input element    When I try to split the string by     or      it fails because of unescaped slashes  Attempts to match replace slashes fails too  Is there a way around this  I need this to work at least in Opera and IE  because in other browsers I can use FileReader   E G  I m getting  C  fakepath typog rules pdf  as input and want to get  typog rules pdf  as output

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Add an input id to the element and do something like that   document getElementById  inputId   value split          pop

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Escape the backslash character   foo split

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I think this is closer to the answer you re looking for    lt input type  file  gt    file     file   var filename   fileElement 0  files 0  name

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For security reasons  it is not possible to get the real  full path of a file  referred through an  lt input type  file    gt  element   This question already mentions  and links to other Stack Overflow questions regarding this topic   Previous answer  kept as a reference for future visitors who reach this page through the title  tags and question  The backslash has to be escaped   string   string split          In JavaScript  the backslash is used to escape special characters  such as newlines   n   If you want to use a literal backslash  a double backslash has to be used   So  if you want to match two backslashes  four backslashes has to be used  For example alert         will show a dialog containing two backslashes

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Slightly hacky  but it works    x000D   x000D  const input     text   x000D  const output   JSON stringify input  replace              g      trim    x000D   x000D  console log   input  output     x000D       input    text   output     text    x000D   x000D   x000D

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