Question

I am trying to replace ‘,”,\ characters with blank.

I use the following code

jQuery.get('/path to file/file.txt',function(data){
  data = data.replace(/\'\"\\/g," ");
  alert(data);
})

but nothing replaced.

Where am I wrong?

Answer 1

Your expression would replace the 3 character sequence '"\ with a space, not the individual chars \, ' and ". Enclose them in a character class [] (and there’s no need to escape with \ except for the \).

data = data.replace(/['"\\]/g," ");

// Example:
var str = "This string has internal \" double \\ quotes \\ and 'some single ones' and a couple of backslashes";
str = str.replace(/['"\\]/g," ");
// Output: all quotes replaced with spaces:
// "This string has internal   double   quotes   and  some single ones  and a couple of backslashes"