Find comma in quotes with regex and replace with HTML equiv

Question

I\'m looking in a string such as:

\"Hello, Tim\"

Land of the free, and home of the brave

And I need it to become:

\"Hello&         


        

Answer 1

It is probably easier with a callback function to replace:

s = s.replace(/"[^"]*"/g, function(g0){return g0.replace(/,/g,',');});

At the first step we find all quotes, and replace just the commas in them.

You can even allow escaping quotes:

• CSV style (with two double quotes) - /"([^"]|"")*"/g
• String literal style - /"([^"\\]|\\.)*"/g