Regular expression problem

From: Joe Ray (raymis_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 07/22/04

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Date: 22 Jul 2004 07:46:41 -0700

I am trying to come up with a regular expression that searches and
replaces all occurences of the string "'" and replaces it with "''" .
However if a backslash comes before the single quote I do NOT want it
too be replaced with two single quotes. Any clues?

Joe

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