Question

I’m trying to turn this text:

She’S Saying It’S Time To ‘Find A Solution’

into this text:

She’s Saying It’s Time To ‘Find A Solution’

only using Javascript.

I tried using:

str.replace(/'S /,"'s ");

but it doesn’t seem to work.

Any ideas? Please not that the whitespace after the S is an important heuristic.

Answer 1

I finally found the problem (none of the solutions below solved it…)

The problem was that my string was using a different type of single quote (’ instead of ‘). The replace function above only recognizes the second type of single quote…

SOLUTION: with a simple amendment, both single quotes can be replaced:

str.replace(/’S |'S /g,"'s ");

That’s it.