How do you escape double quotes if the JSON string is this:
var str = "[{Company: "XYZ",Description: ""TEST""}]"
I want to escape the secondary double quotes in value TEST.
I have tried this but it does not work.
var escapeStr = str.replace(/""/g,'\"');
What am I missing?
It should be:
var str='[{"Company": "XYZ","Description": "\\"TEST\\""}]';
First, I changed the outer quotes to single quotes, so they won't conflict with the inner quotes. Then I put backslash before the innermost quotes around TEST
, to escape them. And I escaped the backslash so that it will be treated literally.
You can get the same result with use of a JSON function:
var str=JSON.stringify({Company: "XYZ", Description: '"TEST"'});
Here inner Quote escaped and entire string taken in single Quote.
var str = '[{ "Company": "XYZ", "Description": "\\"TEST\\""}]';