how to escape characters in nodejs?

Question

I was wondering how would you escape special characters in nodejs. I have a string $what$ever$ and I need it escaped like \\$what\\$ever\\$ before i call a python script wit

Answer 1

You can do this without any modules:

str.replace(/\\/g, "\\\\")
   .replace(/\$/g, "\\$")
   .replace(/'/g, "\\'")
   .replace(/"/g, "\\\"");