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[ilyash]

Basically I have

var text = "ABCD";


Now i have to look for single quotes ' andamperes &

I am not too familiar with javascript..

I work mainly with JAVA so I am guessing you would need a loop..

for(int i=0; i<var.trim().length;i++){
if(text.indexOf(" ' ") > -1){
int pt = text.indexOf(" ' ");
text = text.substring(0,pt) + "WHAT TO REPLACE SING QUOTE WITH" + text.substring(pt+1,text.length);
//repeat for all the things i want to replace
}


Now how would i do this in javascript?

}

[gogocode]

Why not just use a regular expression?

pt = pt.replace(/'/g, 'whatever').replace(/&/g, 'whatever2');