Hi a small correction in the above script..
above script skipping the first character when displaying the output.
function stripSlashes(x)
{
var y = "";
for(i = 0; i < x.length; i++)
{
if(x.charAt(i) == "/")
{
y += "";
}
else
{
y+= x.charAt(i);
}
}
return y;
}