I'm trying to escape the quotes (and apostrofes and escape char) in a text string in javascript:
var text = 'Escape " and \' and /.';
var rx = new RegExp('/([\'"])/g');
console.log(text, ' ==> ', text.replace(rx,'//\1'));
What I expect to be output is Escape /" and /' and //.
, but instead I get Escape " and ' and /.
.
I just can't seem to get this working and don't know what's wrong.
Here's a JSFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/hvtgf/