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

"\\u003c" does not 'belong to UTF-8 charset' at all. It is five UTF-8 characters: '\', '0', '0', '3', and 'c'. The real question here is why are the double backslashes there at all? Or, are they really there? and is your problem perhaps something completely different? If the String "\\u003c" is in your source code, there are no double backslashes in it at all at runtime, and whatever your problem may be, it doesn't concern decoding in the presence of double backslashes.