Me: *spends three days trying to format a string to replace two backslashes with one*

Python: Here you go!

str = bytes(str,"utf-8")
.decode("unicode_escape")

Really, 3 days?

You gonna have a bad time if you use str for a variable name.

@DeepSpace just used it for the example lol

@zacg It’s surprisingly difficult even with regex. But yes, three days but only working for about 3 hours each day.

@Japhy nine hours.

str.gsub! /\\\\/, '\\'

Hmm not the best way but off the top of my head I would've converted to character array iterated through it and check for the current and next character being a backslash and then only add it once to the new built up string

Being the java guy,

str.replaceAll("\\\\", "\\");