Espace single/double quotes inside replace function

Question

I am trying to remove single and double quotes from a string of escaped characters. It does no work for single quotes ' or double autos " .

Please could somebody help please?

var mysting = escapedStr.replace(/^%22/g, ' '); //doesnt remove the double quotes

var mysting = escapedStr.replace(/^%27/g, ' '); //doesnt remove the single quotes

var mysting = escapedStr.replace(/^%3A/g, ' '); //does remove the SEMI COLON %3A

Answer 1

Try this snipped of chained code:

escape(
 unescape( mysting ).replace( /['"]/g, "" )
)

Its small but should do what you need it to do.

Answer 2

The ^ is an anchor indicating the start of the string. That is, it will only do the replacement if the string starts with %22 , etc. Logically, it can only start with one thing (apparently a semi-colon). I think you just want to remove the ^ .