How do I escape quotes in my string?

I have a string Global Variable called help_url that looks like this "https://www.example.com/site#1" (the exact site URL changes during gameplay). Construct forces me to put double quotes around it since it has a # character.

Users are supposed to be able to click on a UI button and then it takes them to the help_url in a new window. Now I am setting up the Browser action for when a user clicks on the button, which means I have to strip out those double quotes, so I'm trying to use:

RegexReplace(help_url,"/["']/","","")

But Construct rejects this because it wants me to close the double quoted string in the REPLACE spot. I'm not great at REGEX, but I've also tried approaching from a different angle with my URL using

RegexMatchAt(help_url, "/[a-zA-Z0-9]*-[a-zA-Z0-9]*/", "", 0)

But that doesn't work either (the page opens to about:blank). Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong or suggest a better way?

I should have clarified: you're right that when I set up the Global variable the first time I can include a hashtag in the string, but when I try to use the "Set Value" action, I cannot change the global variable string to a string with a hashtag without putting quotes around it. See the image here.

In this case you need to put the string in quotes, but they are not part of the string, so you don't need to replace them with RegexReplace.

Set clue_url to "https://www.example.com/site#1"
Set clue_url to replace(clue_ulr, "site#1", "somethingelse")

Ah you're right! I guess I shouldn't have assumed the quotes would become part of the string. Thanks!