Re: reduce repeated backslashes

[Andreas Röhler]

Teemu Likonen wrote:
> * 2010-02-15 09:40 (+0100), Andreas Roehler wrote:
> 
>> don't know how to replace/reduce repeated backslashes from inside a
>> string.
>>
>> Let's assume "abcdef\\\\"
> 
> What is the end result you want? I guess:
> 
>     (replace-regexp-in-string "\\\\\\\\" "\\" "abcdef\\\\" nil t)
>     => "abcdef\\"
> 
> There are 8 backslashes in the regexp string because backslash is a meta
> character in Lisp strings and also in regexps. 8 backslashes in a regexp
> Lisp string means 2 literal backslashes. In the resulting string there
> is only one backslash but it is displayed as two "\\" because it's a
> printed representation of Lisp string.
> 

Thanks all!

Andreas