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+title: "Tip: Prevent a string from being escaped in JavaScript"
+shortTitle: Prevent string escaping
+type: tip
+tags: [javascript,string]
+author: chalarangelo
+cover: glass-blowing
+excerpt: Strings in JavaScript can be escaped in various ways. But how do you prevent a string from being escaped? Here's a handy trick for that.
+dateModified: 2021-06-17T12:00:00+03:00
+---
+
+By default, when JavaScript sees an escape character (`\`), it will escape the character after it. However, there are cases where you might not want this behavior (e.g. when you want to store a Windows path as a string). For these cases, you can use a template literal and the `String.raw()` tag function:
+
+```js
+const path = `C:\web\index.html`; // 'C:web.html'
+
+const unescapedPath = String.raw`C:\web\index.html`; // 'C:\web\index.html'
+```