Path with backslashes to path with forward slashes javascript

Question

I\'m trying to make a local xml file parsing \"application\" for some colleagues and i\'m using the current function to retrieve the files:

Answer 1

The replace method does not alter the current instance of the string, but returns a new one. See if this works:

pathString = pathString.replace(/\\/g,"/");

See this example on jsfiddle.