Replacing double backslashes with single backslash

Question

I have a string \"\\\\u003c\", which belongs to UTF-8 charset. I am unable to decode it to unicode because of the presence of double backslashes. How do i get \"\\u003c\" fr

Answer 1

Another option, capture one of the two slashes and replace both slashes with the captured group:

public static void main(String args[])
{
    String str = "C:\\\\";
    str= str.replaceAll("(\\\\)\\\\", "$1");

    System.out.println(str);
}