So I have 1000 lines of javascript. I need to turn it into a Java String so that I can output (via System.out.println or whatever).
I'm looking for an online tool to escape all the quotes... something geared toward my specific need would be nice as I don't want other special characters changed. Lines like:
var rgx = /(\d+)(\d{3})/;
need to stay intact.
The situation mandates the JavaScript be put into a String so please no workarounds.
Here's a link which features Crockford's implementation of the quote() function. Use it to build your own JavaScript converter.
Edit: I also slightly modified the function to output an ascii-safe string by default.
Edit2: Just a suggestion: It might be smarter to keep the JavaScript in an external file and read it at runtime instead of hardcoding it...
Edit3: And here's a fully-featured solution - just copy to a .html file and replace the dummy script:
<script src="quote.js"></script>
<script>
// this is the JavaScript to be converted:
var foo = 'bar';
var spam = 'eggs';
function fancyFunction() {
return 'cool';
}
</script>
<pre><script>
document.writeln(quote(
document.getElementsByTagName('script')[1].firstChild.nodeValue, true));
</script></pre>
js. Nevertheless it is worthwhile looking into Mr Crockford's.js bin, I cannot see in the html where the js quote file is included. And I do not know what the other functions besides quote do.You can compress the file using one of the available tools to achieve this effect:
You can use the jsmin tool to compress the Javascript to a single line (hopefully), but it doesn't escape the quotes. This can be done with search/replace in an editor or the server side scripting language used.
So everything I tried ended up breaking the javascript. I finally got it to work by doing the following:
Using Notepad++:
Hit Shift + Tab a bunch of times to unindent every line
Do View -> Show End Of Line
Repeat for the CR char
Highlight a " (quote character) and do a Replace All with \" (escaped quote)... just typing the quote character into the Replace prompt only grabbed some of the quotes for some reason.
Now You have 1 enormously long line... I ended up having to break the 1 string apart into about 2000 character long lines.... The crazy long line was killing IE and/or breaking the Java String limit.
