Node.js regex remove apostrophes inside urls

Question

I'd need to replace all apostrophes inside my strings, only the ones in the href=" " tag, apostrophe outside should remain.

I'm using node.js.

Here my string:

This is an example text. I'd love to fix this. 

<a href="https://www.example.com/i'd-love-to-fly/"> I'd love to fly link </a> 

Inside the text there could be more urls 

<a href="https://www.example.com/i'd-rather/">I'd rather link</a>. 

for example

<a href="https://www.example.com/i'd-love-to-fly/"> I'd love to fly link </a> 

should be

<a href="https://www.example.com/id-love-to-fly/"> I'd love to fly link </a> 

I'm trying to use regex

/https[^"]++/

it selects the whole URL but then I don't know how to select and replace only the apostrophe

Answer 1

This would do it assuming you only have a single single-quote inside the URL:

(href="[^"]+)'([^"]+")

https://regex101.com/r/6zRLSC/1

If you have multiple single-quotes then a while loop can address that issue.

 var string = `This is an example text. I'd love to fix this. 

<a href="https://www.example.com/i'd-love-to-fly-but-don't-like-heights/"> I'd love to fly but don't like heights link </a> 

Inside the text there could be more urls 

<a href="https://www.example.com/i'd-rather/">I'd rather link</a>.`;

// While we match the pattern that we're targeting, keep on replacing
while(string.match(/(href="[^"]+)'([^"]+")/))
{
    string = string.replace(/(href="[^"]+)'([^"]+")/g, '$1$2')
}

console.log(string);