How to replace beginning and ending quotes in a string

[Joe Morris]

I have searched and searched and tried many different recommendations but I am unable to get rid of the surrounding quotes of a string.

I have this string as an input - "My Artist is "David Bowie"". What I need is - My Artist is "David Bowie"

I am sending the string into a function node where I am trying to get rid of the surround quotes. I am then sending the output of the function node to the debug node so I can see the payload resulting from the function node.

I have tried so many things and nothing works. Here are some of them:

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function stripquotes(a) {

    if (a.charAt(0) === '"' && a.charAt(a.length-1) === '"') {

        return a.substr(1, a.length-2);

    }

    return a;

}

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msg.payload = msg.payload.replace(/^"|"$/g, '') ;

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msg.payload.substring(1, msg.payload.length-1);

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and many others. It almost seems as if the quotes are being added on AFTER the function.

Thanks

Joe

[Nick O'Leary]

The quotes around the content in the debug panel are there to make it clear it's a string; they are not part of the actual content.

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[Joe Morris]

Thanks Nick,

 

I spent a day trying different things. I only get a ‘?’ form the system that I am dealing with so I assumed it was the quotes.

 

Once I ignored that I then was able to find the real error.

 

Joe

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