How to remove backslashes in string generated through .to_json function. Rails 3.2

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``` ["{"id":317277848652099585,"Tweet text":"Food Carnival by KMS Homemade Food\nOn the occasion of this Holi and Good Friday, KMS Homemade Foods invites you... http://t.co/2Y2mO6vr76","Word count":21,"Url":"true"}"] ``` a is a hash with some keys and values. ``` a = a.to_json ``` converts the hash to a string. Now a is a string with all backslashes... I know tha ``` puts a ``` returns a string with all backslashes removed but what if i want to store the 'backslash removed string' in a variable?

Accepted Answer

You can just `gsub!` to replace the `\"` with a single quote `'`, like so:

```
a.gsub!(/\"/, '\'')
```

How to remove backslashes in string generated through .to_json function. Rails 3.2

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