I'm using sanitize-html to clean pasted text for draftJS editor.

Lets say result might be text string like this

<h1 class="title"> President said "<b>Give this man a money</b>" and i agree </h1

Now i need to replace " with « or » depends on conditions. How should i do that. I tried to figure out if i can do it with draftJS ContentBlock methods, but it seems way too plicated. So i think it is easier to modify html string.

I'm using sanitize-html to clean pasted text for draftJS editor.

Lets say result might be text string like this

<h1 class="title"> President said "<b>Give this man a money</b>" and i agree </h1

Now i need to replace " with « or » depends on conditions. How should i do that. I tried to figure out if i can do it with draftJS ContentBlock methods, but it seems way too plicated. So i think it is easier to modify html string.

• javascript
• html
• draftjs

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You can do this with two regular expressions I guess:

    var inputString = `<h1 class="title">
      President said "<b>Give this man a money</b>" and i agree
    </h1>`
      , startingQuoteRE = / "/g
      , endingQuoteRE = /" /g
      , outputString = ''
      ;
    outputString = inputString.replace(startingQuoteRE, " «");
    outputString = outputString.replace(endingQuoteRE, "» ");
    // Or by chaining .replace
    // outputString = inputString.replace(startingQuoteRE, " «").replace(endingQuoteRE, "» ");
    console.log(outputString);

1. Create a replaceAll function. Because replace function will replace the only first occurrence.

   String.prototype.replaceAll = function(string, replace) {
   return this.split(string).join(replace);
   };
   

2. Call the function like this.

   var str = '<h1 class="title">\
   President said "<b>Give this man a money</b>" and i agree\
   </h1>';
   var result = str.replaceAll('"','\'');
   console.log(result);