How to escape characters in javascript with a space before

Question

I would like to escape a " /" (a slash with a space before) in a javascript expression.

Naturally, it works with this expression:

string.replace(/\//g,"\n");

It replaces all the "/"-s in my string with a "\n" (console linebreak).

But what I really need is an expression, or a method to replace " /"-s instead of "/"-s.

As You may know, unfortunatelly the escaping expression breaks this way:

string.replace(/\ //g,"\n");

Thanks for Your help!

Solution

You just need:

string.replace(/ \//g,"\n");

so that you're matching a space followed by an (escaped) forward slash.

This has some good examples: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String/replace