Change backslash to forward slash in windows batch file

Question

I\'m trying to convert all backslashes () to forward slashes (/) in a variable which contains a file name and location. I\'ve read about this and seen:

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Answer 1

This seems to work for me:

echo off

setlocal enabledelayedexpansion

FOR %%f IN ("C:\tools\workspace\*") DO (
  set old=%%f
  echo !old!
  set new=!old:\=/!
  echo !new!  
  echo.                 
)

Using a seperate variable rather than the loop variable makes the difference, along with enabling delayed expansion as the variable substittion syntex using the loop variable %%f dosn't seem to work.