remove duplicate forward slashes from the URL

Question

How can I remove duplicate forward slashes from the a url, but keep the // which comes after http: so that the URL does not break.

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Answer 1

I know there're different answers solving the same problem, just another approach :)

var s = "http://www.some-url.com//path//to";
var res = s.replace(/(https?:\/\/)|(\/)+/g, "$1$2");