Replace character in javascript

Question

I need replace a character in a string for a backslash,

example

var string = "hello world!"; string.replace("!","\");

help me please

thanks!!!!

Answer 1

You can use:

string = string.replace(/!/g, '\\');

backslash needs to be escaped with another backslash and better to use regex /!/ in order to replace all the occurrences of !