Regex for replacing a single-quote with two single-quotes

Question

I\'m running into an issue that I think is being caused by needing to double-up on some single quotes inside a string. However, JS\'s string.replace uses RegEx, and I\'ve ne

Answer 1

JS's string.replace uses RegEx

Not necessarily:

var str = "O'Reilly's books";
alert(str.replace("'", "''", 'g'));

MDC's String replace reference:

The pattern can be a string or a RegExp

Mmm, my code above doesn't seem to work on IE6, so that will be:

str.replace(/'/g, "''")

like the others said, but using regexes for such simple operation is overkill.