Regex for escape apostrophe(single quote) in word with single quotes

Asked Jan 22 '20 at 16:50

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I have such a word written within single quotes:

'Macy's'

I need to escape apostrophe(or single quote if used instead) in the word. The regex that I have escape all single quotes in the word. I detect word inside single quotes and try to escape apostrophe(single quote) but all quotes are escaped:

if (word.match(/'(.*?)'/g)) {
   return `'${item.replace(/'/g, "\\'")}'`;
 }

so output is '\'Macys\'' but I need it to be 'Macy\'s'

edited Jan 22 '20 at 16:52

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asked Jan 22 '20 at 16:50

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See https://stackoverflow.com/a/36350169/3832970 – Wiktor Stribiżew Jan 22 '20 at 16:52
this is not js but java – rick1 Jan 22 '20 at 16:56
I need javascript answer and I didn't find any – rick1 Jan 22 '20 at 16:56
Are you going to use this in a SQL-query? – some Jan 22 '20 at 17:01
no, I just need to escape it – rick1 Jan 22 '20 at 17:02
So, `s.replace(/\b'\b/g, "\\'")` – Wiktor Stribiżew Jan 22 '20 at 17:03
@WiktorStribiżew this is what I'm looking for. Thanks. – rick1 Jan 22 '20 at 17:05

Regex for escape apostrophe(single quote) in word with single quotes

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