how to escape quotes in gremlin queries

Question

I have this query and as you firstName contains single quote Anthony O'Neil

:> g.addV('person')
    .property('firstName', 'Anthony O'Neil')
    .property('lastName', 'Andersen')
    .property('age', 44)

Any Ideas how to escape it?

Answer 1

Escape the apostrophe using \

So your Gremlin becomes:

:> g.addV('person')
    .property('firstName', 'Anthony O\'Neil')
    .property('lastName', 'Andersen')
    .property('age', 44)

Answer 2

Found out the answer

for encoding use this: encodeURIComponent("Anthony O'Neil").replace(/[!'()*]/g, escape) and the output is: Anthony%20O%27Neil

for decoding use this: decodeURIComponent("Anthony%20O%27Neil") and you will get back Anthony O'Neil

if you just want to escape the single quote use this for encoding: "Anthony O'Neill".replace(/[!'()*]/g, escape) output: Anthony O%27Neill

and the same function above for decoding