Pattern Matching with Regular Expressions

The double quote

[circuitjump]

Hi all,
I got a quick question.
What would be the best way to changing a sentence in JS that goes like so

"This is a "BIG"cat."

I want to change that to this
"This is a \"BIG\" cat."

Then I want to do
document.write quotes;

quotes being the variable I save all of this on.

I've been reading about search(), and replace() but dont know how to quite use them to do this trick.

Any suggestions?

[txbakers]

Use the double quotes in your document write method, then change the outer quotes of the sentence to single quotes, leaving the escaped double quotes around the word BIG.

[circuitjump]

Not quite getting what you mean there txbakers. Could I bother you to go a little more into what your saying?

Thanks

[joshie76]

Bit baffled at exactly what and why you're trying to do but (as the answer depends on where the string is coming from originally) I think txbakers is saying to try the following:

var test = 'This is a "BIG" cat';

Using the single quotes means you don't have to escape the double quotes.

FYI: The replace function works as follows:

var test = 'hello mr smith';
test = test.replace('smith','johnson');

This would result in "hello mr johnson"

Regular expressions are a whole different kettle of fish and much more complex. I shouldn't think you'll need them for what you're trying to do.

if you can let us know exactly where and why you need to do what you're doin' perhaps a code snippet, I'm sure one of us'll have the definitive answer.

Josh

[circuitjump]

Hi all,

This is exactly what I'm trying to do. I posted this on the server-side area of the site. It has to do with server-side languages but ....... well, check it out it will tell you exactly what i'm trying to do.

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Thank you all