Explanation: anything enclosed within a pair of forward slashes / signals that it is a regex. As such, we need to use the backslash to escape the forward slash to get \/. The g at the end is a flag to perform a global search, and thus replaces all occurrence of / with :.
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Explanation: anything enclosed within a pair of forward slashes
/signals that it is a regex. As such, we need to use the backslash to escape the forward slash to get\/. Thegat the end is a flag to perform a global search, and thus replaces all occurrence of/with:.Nicely put :)
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One and done function is better than two! Use this all the time.
I saw this exact method used to solve a problem on GitHub but I could not understand the use of forward slash and g. Thanks for this!