How to enter quotes in a Java string?

Question

I want to initialize a String in Java, but that string needs to include quotes; for example: "ROM". I tried doing:

String value = " "ROM" ";

but that doesn't work. How can I include "s within a string?

Without escaping quotes version: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3034186/in-java-is-there-a-way-to-write-a-string-literal-without-having-to-escape-quote — Ciro Santilli OurBigBook.com, Mar 20 '15 at 16:32

Ian Henry · Accepted Answer · 2017-04-30T16:55:40.903

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In Java, you can escape quotes with \:

String value = " \"ROM\" ";

edited Apr 30 '17 at 16:55

answered Aug 24 '10 at 17:16

Ian Henry

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score 20 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 24 '10 at 17:33

In reference to your comment after Ian Henry's answer, I'm not quite 100% sure I understand what you are asking.

If it is about getting double quote marks added into a string, you can concatenate the double quotes into your string, for example:

String theFirst = "Java Programming";
String ROM = "\"" + theFirst + "\"";

Or, if you want to do it with one String variable, it would be:

String ROM = "Java Programming";
ROM = "\"" + ROM + "\"";

Of course, this actually replaces the original ROM, since Java Strings are immutable.

If you are wanting to do something like turn the variable name into a String, you can't do that in Java, AFAIK.

score 15 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 24 '13 at 12:02

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\ = \\

" = \"

new line = \r\n OR \n\r OR \n (depends on OS) bun usualy \n enough.

taabulator = \t

answered Sep 24 '13 at 12:02

Oleksandr Samsonov

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Down-vote from me. This answer doesn't help address the original question any more thoroughly than the existing answers posted a year before this. – Duncan Jones Mar 18 '15 at 08:50

score 15 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 24 '10 at 17:16

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Not sure what language you're using (you didn't specify), but you should be able to "escape" the quotation mark character with a backslash: "\"ROM\""

answered Aug 24 '10 at 17:16

Shaggy Frog

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score 12 · Answer 5 · answered Aug 24 '10 at 17:16

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Just escape the quotes:

String value = "\"ROM\"";

answered Aug 24 '10 at 17:16

score 7 · Answer 6 · edited Jul 05 '15 at 11:29

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In Java, you can use char value with ":

char quotes ='"';

String strVar=quotes+"ROM"+quotes;

edited Jul 05 '15 at 11:29

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answered Sep 24 '13 at 11:59

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Your code doesn't compile, you forgot the variable name. Also, your code is needlessly complex. This would do fine: `String foo = quotes + "ROM" + quotes;`. No need for all those extra `""`. – Duncan Jones Mar 18 '15 at 08:55

score 5 · Answer 7 · answered Aug 18 '18 at 14:54

Here is full java example:-

public class QuoteInJava {     

public static void main (String args[])
    {
            System.out.println ("If you need to 'quote' in Java");
            System.out.println ("you can use single \' or double \" quote");
    }
}

Here is Out PUT:-

If you need to 'quote' in Java
you can use single ' or double " quote

score 1 · Answer 8 · answered May 23 '15 at 10:59

Look into this one ... call from anywhere you want.

public String setdoubleQuote(String myText) {
    String quoteText = "";
    if (!myText.isEmpty()) {
        quoteText = "\"" + myText + "\"";
    }
    return quoteText;
}

apply double quotes to non empty dynamic string. Hope this is helpful.

score 0 · Answer 9 · answered Jan 25 '20 at 18:16

This tiny java method will help you produce standard CSV text of a specific column.

public static String getStandardizedCsv(String columnText){

    //contains line feed ?
    boolean containsLineFeed = false;
    if(columnText.contains("\n")){
        containsLineFeed = true;
    }

    boolean containsCommas = false;
    if(columnText.contains(",")){
        containsCommas = true;
    }

    boolean containsDoubleQuotes = false;
    if(columnText.contains("\"")){
        containsDoubleQuotes = true;
    }

    columnText.replaceAll("\"", "\"\"");

    if(containsLineFeed || containsCommas || containsDoubleQuotes){
        columnText = "\"" + columnText + "\"";
    }

    return columnText;
}

result of `columnText.replaceAll("\"", "\"\"");` is ignored - needs to be `columnText = columnText.replaceAll("\"", "\"\"");` — Mic, Aug 18 '22 at 06:57

score -4 · Answer 10 · answered Apr 03 '17 at 09:40

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suppose ROM is string variable which equals "strval" you can simply do

String value= " \" "+ROM+" \" ";

it will be stored as

value= " "strval" ";

answered Apr 03 '17 at 09:40

Isharth Rastogi

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This does not answer the question any better that the accepted answer. Please don't go adding answers to old questions like this. It doesn't help. – Stephen C Apr 13 '17 at 03:37

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