libraries or functions to escape quotes, tabs, etc.

[christopher.tokar]

Hello,
I was wondering if there are any proper, robust libraries or
functions/methods that I don't know of that will escape all the
problematic characters such as single quotes and tabs. I find myself
writing
x = x.replace(/'/g,"\\'"); and the reverse over and over again.
Shouldn't Javascript have a built in method to do this? I know of the
escape() function but I am not sure if this is more for urls. What is
the real world way of storing such an "escaped" variable in a database
that will later be read into a javascript variable? :-/
Maybe one could use escape() and unescape() in some way, but some
expert probably could answer this in a snap.
Thanks!
Chris

[Randy Webb]

ch***************@gmail.com said the following on 1/5/2007 10:22 AM:

Hello,
I was wondering if there are any proper, robust libraries or
functions/methods that I don't know of that will escape all the
problematic characters such as single quotes and tabs. I find myself
writing
x = x.replace(/'/g,"\\'"); and the reverse over and over again.

Write a function that does it for you then:

function fixIt(x){
x = x.replace(/'/g,"\\'");
return x
}

myString = fixIt(myString)

And then you have your own library for it.

Shouldn't Javascript have a built in method to do this? I know of the
escape() function but I am not sure if this is more for urls. What is
the real world way of storing such an "escaped" variable in a database
that will later be read into a javascript variable? :-/

Having the server "fix it" before saving it and then sending it back to
the client.

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