Escaping quotes in a javascript string

Question

I\'m trying to escape the quotes (and apostrofes and escape char) in a text string in javascript:

var text = \'Escape \" and \\\' and /.\';
var rx = new RegExp(\         


        

Answer 1

Escaping means using backslash \ but not slash /.

However, for your purposes you can try the following:

text.replace(/([/'"])/g, "/$1");

DEMO: http://jsfiddle.net/hvtgf/1/