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Best practice. As most of the Ruby Linters suggest use single quote literals for your strings and go for the double ones in the case of interpolation/escaping sequences.
We can use the backslash ( \ ) escape character to prevent JavaScript from interpreting a quote as the end of the string. The syntax of \' will always be a single quote, and the syntax of \" will always be a double quote, without any fear of breaking the string.
The backslash ( \ ) character is used to escape characters that otherwise have a special meaning, such as newline, backslash itself, or the quote character.
\' means $' which is everything after the match. Escape the \ again and it works
"Yaho'o".gsub("'", "\\\\'")
"Yaho'o".gsub("'", "\\\\'")
Because you're escaping the escape character as well as escaping the single quote.
This will also do it, and it's a bit more readable:
def escape_single_quotes(str)
str.gsub(/'/) { |x| "\\#{x}" }
end
If you want to escape both a single-quote and a backslash, so that you can embed that string in a double-quoted ruby string, then the following will do that for you:
def escape_single_quotes_and_backslash(str)
str.gsub(/\\|'/) { |x| "\\#{x}" }
end
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