string manipulation question

[Kenneth Brody]

Robert Haussmann wrote:
> 
> I'm sure there is probably a very easy way to do the
> following, but it eludes me at the moment.  How
> can I take a string, and replace every instance of
> one character (a single quotation mark) with two
> characters (two single quotes)?
> 
> In other words:
>         O'Brian becomes O''Brian
>         O'Brian's becomes O''Brian''s

As long as you don't want to computer two quotes into four, use the
following edit:

    { {!" "!}@ | "'"<"'"> | * }

This will convert one single-quote into two, and it will leave two
single-quotes as two.

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