Remove Quotes from String
Remove quotes from a string, and replace with the html entity for the quote character.
This is useful if you want to save the text in a csv file or any other situation where allowing quotes would cause the string to terminate prematurely.
textcomment = removeQuotes(textcomment);
function removeQuotes(str) {
return str.split('"').join('"');
}
Example:
Javascript
textcomment = 'George said "Hi everyone" as he entered the room.';
textcomment = removeQuotes(textcomment);
Produces the result:
textcomment == George said "Hi everyone" as he entered the room.
Which is displayed as quotes in a browser as shown below. This prevents additional quotes from terminating the string and causing javascript or html errors. The string below is displayed with " in place of quotes.
George said "Hi everyone" as he entered the room.