javascript and treatment of backslash

[completerookie]

I need to pass the value of the FragmentImageFileName to a javascript function and ran into a problem
the image is in a subdirectory called "images" so I have an image name of

images\racesuit.jpg

when I then generate the code, it creates

popItUp('../images\racesuit.jpg','the title')

problem then is that Javascript treats the \r as a newline (regular expression) and I end up with

<img src='../images
acesuit.jpg' title='the title'>

(note the new line, the missing \ and the missing r)

the javascript I have is

function popItUp(url,title)
	newwindow.document.writeln('<img src=' + url + ' title=\"' + title + '\" alt=\"' + title + '\" >');
	}

can anyone tell me how to remove the \r intepretation from the javascript - I've tried the javascript command of escape(FragmentImageFileName) but that doesn't work

any ideas please

[Donald Gray]

I am definately not a Java syntax man however a couple of thoughts, which you may already have tried...
1) enclosing the argument with a pair of " to force it to read it as a string

Possible work-a-round?
2) re-naming the image so that the first letter does not comply with regular expressions.

Regards

[NormanRouxel]

Use PHP to replace all backslashes with forward ones. E.g.

<actinic:block php="true">echo str_replace('\\','/','<actinic:variable name="myvar" encoding="perl" />');</actinic:block>

[completerookie]

re-naming the image so that the first letter does not comply with regular expressions.

not really practical, I choose to put the product images in a single subfolder to avoid duplicate file names, but I would now have to avoid anything beginning with R and N and ... and other regular expression letter

Norman, thanks for the solution, I'll plug that in and play some more