Java: Replace all ' in a string with \'

Question

I need to escape all quotes (\') in a string, so it becomes \\\'

I\'ve tried using replaceAll, but it doesn\'t do anything. For some reason I can\'t get the regex to

Answer 1

Use replace()

 s = s.replace("'", "\\'"); 

output:

You\'ll be totally awesome, I\'m really terrible