HTML Escape Sequence versus \

[Eric]

Hello,

I'm having problems with the apostrophe character when building a
Javascript array.

I've come up with two different ways to fix the problem. I wondered
if any one had any input as to which approach would be "best
practices" and why.

Approach 1:

var aMyArray = new Array();
aMyArray[aMyArray.length] = new Array('Person's name.',
'',
'False',
'',
'True');

Approach 2:

var aMyArray = new Array();
aMyArray[aMyArray.length] = new Array('Person\'s name.',
'',
'False',
'',
'True');

Thanks,
Eric

[pr]

Eric wrote:

I'm having problems with the apostrophe character when building a
Javascript array.

I've come up with two different ways to fix the problem. I wondered
if any one had any input as to which approach would be "best
practices" and why.

Approach 1:

var aMyArray = new Array();
aMyArray[aMyArray.length] = new Array('Person's name.',

Unless the programmer retains a table of ASCII codes in their head, this
approach is going to be slightly more troublesome to maintain.

[...]

Approach 2:

var aMyArray = new Array();
aMyArray[aMyArray.length] = new Array('Person\'s name.',

This is more normal.

Simplest of all is:

aMyArray[aMyArray.length] = new Array("Person's name.", ...

[pr]

pr wrote:

Eric wrote:

>aMyArray[aMyArray.length] = new Array('Person's name.',

Unless the programmer retains a table of ASCII codes in their head, this
approach is going to be slightly more troublesome to maintain.

and I should have asked if you really meant ''' or '\u0027'.

See
<URL:http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Core_JavaScript_1.5_Guide:Literals#Using_Special_C haracters_in_Strings>
<URL:http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/charset.html#h-5.3.1>