How do I retain backslashes in strings when using JSON.stringify?

Question

So I got a string that has a backslash in it. \"kIurhgFBOzDW5il89\\/lB1ZQnmmY=\".

I tried adding an extra \'\\\', but JSON.stringify( \"kIurhgFBOzDW5i

Answer 1

The backslash is escaping the forward slash. So JSON.stringify("\/") returns "/" since it sees an escaped forward slash, so its just a forward slash. JSON.stringify("\\/") sees a backslash being escaped, and then a forward slash next to that, so it returns "\/". You cannot preserve the "exact" string when you stringify, since parsing a json string will not escape characters, so you get back your original data, just unescaped.