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

With the above string as variable html you can use following code:

var m = html.match(/"[\s\S]*"/);
html = html.replace(m[0], m[0].replace(/,/g, ','));

OUTPUT

"Hello, Tim"

Land of the free, and home of the brave