Put quotes around a variable string in JavaScript

Question

I have a JavaScript variable:

var text = \"http://example.com\"

Text can be multiple links. How can I put \'\' around the variable string?<

Answer 1

To represent the text below in JavaScript:

"'http://example.com'"

Use:

"\"'http://example.com'\""

Or:

'"\'http://example.com\'"'

Note that: We always need to escape the quote that we are surrounding the string with using \

JS Fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/efcwG/

General Pointers:

• You can use quotes inside a string, as long as they don't match the quotes surrounding the string:

Example

var answer="It's alright";
var answer="He is called 'Johnny'";
var answer='He is called "Johnny"';

• Or you can put quotes inside a string by using the \ escape character:

Example

var answer='It\'s alright';
var answer="He is called \"Johnny\"";

• Or you can use a combination of both as shown on top.

http://www.w3schools.com/js/js_obj_string.asp

Answer 2

Try:

var text = "'" + "http://example.com" + "'";

Answer 3

Lets assume you have a bunch of urls separated by spaces. In this case, you could do this:

function quote(text) {
  var urls = text.split(/ /)
  for (var i = 0; i < urls.length; i++) urls[i] = "'" + urls[i] + "'"
  return urls.join(" ")
}

This function takes a string like "http://example.com http://blarg.test" and returns a string like "'http://example.com' 'http://blarg.test'".

It works very simply: it takes your string of urls, splits it by spaces, surrounds each resulting url with quotes and finally combines all of them back with spaces.

Answer 4

I think, the best and easy way for you, to put value inside quotes is:

JSON.stringify(variable or value)

Answer 5

In case of array like

result = [ '2015',  '2014',  '2013',  '2011' ],

it gets tricky if you are using escape sequence like:

result = [ \'2015\',  \'2014\',  \'2013\',  \'2011\' ].

Instead, good way to do it is to wrap the array with single quotes as follows:

result = "'"+result+"'";

Answer 6

var text = "http://example.com";

text = "'"+text+"'";

Would attach the single quotes (') to the front and the back of the string.