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Tip: Prevent a string from being escaped in JavaScript	Prevent string escaping	tip	javascript,string	chalarangelo	blog_images/glass-blowing.jpg	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.	2021-06-12T19:30:41+03:00	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:

const path = `C:\web\index.html`; // 'C:web.html'

const unescapedPath = String.raw`C:\web\index.html`; // 'C:\web\index.html'