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title: "Tip: Prevent a string from being escaped in JavaScript"
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type: tip
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tags: javascript,string
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authors: chalarangelo
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cover: blog_images/glass-blowing.jpg
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excerpt: Strings in JavaScript can be escaped in various ways. But what if you need to prevent a string from being escaped? Here's a handy trick for that.
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firstSeen: 2021-06-17T12:00:00+03:00
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lastUpdated: 2021-06-12T19:30:41+03:00
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---
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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:
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```js
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const path = `C:\web\index.html`; // 'C:web.html'
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const unescapedPath = String.raw`C:\web\index.html`; // 'C:\web\index.html'
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```
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