Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello,

Trying to replace any ' (single quotes) in a string with '

tried $dsname =~ s/'/'/g;

but that obviously didn't work.

Any quick tips?

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Re: Quotes to 'HTML' Quotes...
by Trimbach (Curate) on Mar 16, 2004 at 12:54 UTC
    Or better yet: 
    use HTML::Entities qw(encode_entities_numeric);
$dsname = encode_entities_numeric( $dsname );

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    Easy, to the point, and fixes a lot more than just single quotes. :-)

    Gary Blackburn
    Trained Killer

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      * Your a star *
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Re: Quotes to 'HTML' Quotes...
by matija (Priest) on Mar 16, 2004 at 12:48 UTC 
    $a="'Obviously?'"; 
$a=~s/\'/'/g; 
print $a."\n";

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    # /tmp/q
    'Obviously?'

    Update:I just checked: $a=~s/'/'/g; (i.e. without escaping the quote) works, too.

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Re: Quotes to 'HTML' Quotes...
by Old_Gray_Bear (Bishop) on Mar 16, 2004 at 12:46 UTC
    Shouldn't it be 
    $dsname =~ /\'/'/g;

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    with the bip escaped?

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    OGB

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      What makes you think escaping the quote matters?

      Abigail

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