Question

I have this code:

var data = "I'm trying to send this with AJAX properly.";
data = encodeURIComponent(data);
data.replace("'", "%27");
data.replace(/'/, "%27");
alert(data); //Still not changed here...

I want to send that with AJAX to the database. But the ‘ is causing it to not send at all.
encodeURIComponent doesn’t change the ‘ to its code %27, neither does data.replace.

What am I doing wrong here?

Answer 1

You’re not re-assigning data.

data = data.replace("'", "%27");

replace() returns the modified string, it doesn’t modify the calling object string directly.