Regular expression to avoid double quotes inside single quotes

Question

I will need a regex that escapes or captures (if not escaped) ALL double-quote characters INSIDE a single quote and then converts open single quotes to double quotes!

We are refactoring files that have many (and I mean many!) Single quotes in PHP or JS files. The only thing they have in common is that the lines are in at least one line and are summarized in = in both languages.

I will give an example (an example is an ugly outdated code, so don’t judge it, I already did it :)) We have a file that starts as follows:

var baseUrl = $("#baseurl").html();
var head = '<div id="finishingDiv" style="background-image:url({baseUrl}css/userAd/images/out_main.jpg); background-repeat: repeat-y; ">'+
'<div id="buttonbar" style="width:810px; text-align:right">';

and I want it to look like this:

var baseUrl = $("#baseurl").html();
var head = "<div id=\"finishingDiv\" style=\"background-image:url({baseUrl}css/userAd/images/out_main.jpg); background-repeat: repeat-y; \">" +
"<div id=\"buttonbar\" style=\"width:810px; text-align:right\">";

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Answer 1

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#!/usr/bin/ruby -p

gsub!(/'((?:[^\\']|\\[\\'])+)'/) do |m|
  %Q{"#{$1.gsub("\\'","'").gsub(/\\[^\\]/) { "\\#{$0}" }.gsub('"','\\"')}"}
end

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Answer 2

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