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how can I pass a string with apostrophe

Hi,

I need your help please, I have an onclick event that I am passing a variable.

the value of that variable has apostrophe. How can I pass my value with apostrophe in it?

here's what I have

the value for "cn" is = 'O'brianes'

onClick="return SendValue('#UrlVal#');">

so this is how it looks

onClick="return SendValue('O'brianes');">

How can I fix this issue? 

Please help thank you

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Guy Hengel [angelIII / a3]

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lulu50

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Guy,

I changed the code to this: 
onClick="return SendValue(escape('#GetSomeUsers.cn#')">


My output now is this: 
return SendValue(escape('O'Brien, Smith'));

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Rob

I suggest you use double quotes:

onClick="return SendValue(\"#UrlVal#\");">

Guy Hengel [angelIII / a3]

looks like I confused the "html/url" part ...

you may want to try eval...
onClick="return SendValue(eval('GetSomeUsers.cn') )">

anyhow, where does the value come from?

Guy Hengel [angelIII / a3]

using double quotes will not help if the value contains double quotes...

lulu50

ASKER

I tried double quotes and that did not work

the value coming from the database

lulu50

ASKER

How can I in Javascript
make this value :
onClick="return SendValue('#GetSomeUsers.cn#' )"

turn to this value:

O\'brianes

if I replace ' with \' then it will work (How can I do the replace in javascript)

onClick="return SendValue('#GetSomeUsers.cn#.replace(/'/g, "")' )"

something like the above syntax

lulu50

ASKER

if I do this then it works

onClick="return SendValue('O\'brianes')

so I need to replace ' with \' in order to work with my passed variable #GetSomeUsers.cn#

lulu50

ASKER

#REReplace(GetSomeUsers.cn,"''","'","ALL")#

but I need to add the \ to get to this result O\'brianes I don't know where to put the \

lulu50

ASKER

oh I got it

lulu50

ASKER

Thank you Guy for telling that I have to put \ when I did it works fine

onClick="return SendValue('#REreplace(GetSomeUsers.cn, "'", "\'", "all")#')

lulu50

ASKER

Thank you all for your help