replacing backslashes with forward slashes in actionscript

Question

var aText:String = "C:\\folder\\folder\\file";
var filterVal:String = aText.toLowerCase().replace( /\//g, '/');
trace( aText );
trace( filterVal );

results as:

C:\folder\folder\file
c:\folder\folder\file

this code was based on this site and nascent regex skills.

What am I doing wrong? Thank you.

Answer 1

you are doing it wrong, what you seem want \is:

var filterVal:String = aText.toLowerCase().replace( /\\/g, '/');

The initial and ending '/' delimit the Regular Expression. What is inside (\\) is what you are searching for. Since it's a backslash, you need to escape it.