I have these two scenarios:
console.log(('hello "friend" what\'s up?').replace(/\"/g, '\\"'));
I receive the expected result:
hello "friend" what's up?
But, if I do this:
var val = 'hello "friend" what\'s up?';
val.replace(/\"/g, '\\"');
console.log(val);
I get...
hello "friend" what's up?
(the result needs to be hello \"friend\" what's up?)
The only difference is that the second one uses an already created variable that contains the string. Why doesn't the second scenario actually replace the double quotes with \"?
From the MDN documentation:
The replace() method returns a new string with some or all matches of a pattern replaced by a replacement.
You need to do val = val.replace(/\"/g, '\\"'); so that you're assigning the new string returned by calling replace to your variable.
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