AutoHotKey script replace backslashes with forward slashes

Question

I run a Linux emulator (or subsystem) under Windows 10, and sometimes I need to past Windows paths in the Linux console. Windows paths use backslashes \ to separate directories whereas Linux paths use forward slashes / instead.

To avoid having to replace the \ with / manually, I have tried using an AHK script to do the replacement on any path that I copy, but it doesn't want to work.

This is my script (I have marked in the code ##works until here## the furthest point until where it seems to be working):

^+7:: ; Ctrl+Shift+7 (/)

;Empty the Clipboard.
    Clipboard =
;Copy the select text to the Clipboard.
    SendInput, ^c
;Wait for the Clipboard to fill.
    ClipWait

;Perform the RegEx find and replace operation,
;where the needle is what we want to replace.
    haystack := Clipboard
    needle := "\"
    replacement := "/"
    result := RegExReplace(haystack, needle, replacement)

;Empty the Clipboard
    Clipboard =
;Copy the result to the Clipboard.
    Clipboard := result
;##works until here##
;Wait for the Clipboard to fill.
    ClipWait 

;-- Optional: --
;Send (paste) the contents of the new Clipboard.
    SendInput, %Clipboard%

;Done!
    return

Thanks in advance for any tips.

Answer 1

It seems the backslash needs to be escaped to be recognized by RegExReplace, like this:

needle := "\\"