Peter Tosh wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> after lots of trying and searching, I still cant figure out how to
> remove the second backslash in a string:
> 
> "c:\\test"
> 
> I need it with one backslash for a comparison in my db.
> 
> Can anyone do it?
> 
> thanks!
> Niels

Is that a string literal from your source code? Is yes, then you can do 
away with the 'escaping the backslash' fiasco by using single quoted 
strings.

str = 'c:\test'

which is equivalent to:

str = "c:\\test"

-sos
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