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

Note that if you don't want to use RegExp (and there are often good reasons not to), the idiom for a simple string replacement is:

str.split("'").join("''")

Although the RegExp version is typically marginally faster, the string version can be a win when you don't know if there might be regex-special characters (like .) in the search string.