Hi All,

Please help. :-)

I am grabing string of texts from a database and putting them into a JavaScript Array. These string of texts contain single and double quotes(Example: He said "They'll sing "Jingle Bell""). DON'T worry about the grammatical syntax right now; this is just an example.

Here is my problem. When I replace all the double quotes with single quotes(in my database records), I will have no problem, when I run my JavaScript. But if I leave the double quotes in, my array will NOT work.

Is there anyway I can solve this problem? I HAVE to have my double quotes!

Thank you.

Leon

Leon,

You can replace all the occurances of double quotes to "something else", that does not hinder you array manipulations, and then when showing them on the page, replace those "something else" to double quotes back.

Change " to $ or @ (whichever u prefer that does not hinder you array manipulations)
Change ' to ! or ~

Do array manipulations

Change $/@ back to "
Change !/~ back to '

NOTE: See to that you dont have $/@/!/~ within you string texts, so that they dont get replaced to "/' post manipulations. You got to decide which character to go for replacing the quotes.

Hope that helps.
Cheers!

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-Vijay G
Strive for Perfection

Have you tried this?

MyQuote = "He said ""They'll sing ""Jingle Bell"""""

DaveGerard,

I assume Leon is having problem in manipulating with double quotes in arrays using javascript. I think the one you are referring to is used with VBScript.

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-Vijay G
Strive for Perfection

Hello,

MyQuote = "He said ""They'll sing ""Jingle Bell""""" will work in ASP too, although I see the problem that you are having. In JavaScript, you can have single-quotes or double-quotes by using an escape sequence, such as \" or \'. That will write a double or single quote to the string for javascript.

Brian

Thank you guys for the quick reply and solution! My codes works now! There are so much more for me to learn. Until next time....

Thanks again!!! :-)

Leon

So what was the solution?

Hope he should have gone with Brian's suggestions.

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-Vijay G
Strive for Perfection