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Hi,

I have a question about use special characters in opportunity name:

I created an opportunity which has double quotation " and the prime ', the name is:

special"ABC'123/\*

Now I want to use this name in my S-Control which is using HTML code, actually

I want to remove the speical characters, to make it as

specialABC123

But if I put the above string in a Javascript function like this:

var str = "{!Opportunity.name}" or var str = '{!Opportunity.name}'

Since {!Opportunity.name} only replaces the whole string directly

without encoded or escaped, the string is like this:

"special"ABC'123/\*" or 'special"ABC'123/\*'

None of them could work properly because either the double quotation " should be

escaped as \" or the prime should be escaped as \' to make the Javasrcipt string

as a valid string.

Does anybody know how to use the opportunity name string as encoded or escaped?

The only way I know how to use it is:

{!Opportunity.name}

but this does not work properly in the above case.

Thanks.