Replace double quotes(")

Question

Here my String is looking like :-

sTest = AAAAA"1111

I want to replace double quote to a back ward slash and a double quotes(\")

I need the String Like

sTest = AAAAA\"1111

dacwe · Answer 1 · 2011-05-11T14:20:26.797

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String escaped = "AAAAA\"1111".replace("\"", "\\\"");

API doc for String.replace

(Note that the replaceAll version handles regular expressions and is an overkill for this particular situation.)

edited May 11 '11 at 14:20

answered May 11 '11 at 14:08

dacwe

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RonK · Answer 2 · 2011-05-11T14:16:33.113

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string.replace("\"", "\\\"")

You want to replace " with \". Since both " and \ have a specific meaning you must escape them correctly by adding a preceding \ before each one.

So " --> \" and \" --> \\\". And since you want the compiler to understand that this is a String, you need to wrap each string with double-quotes So " --> \" and "\"" --> "\\\"".

edited May 11 '11 at 14:16

answered May 11 '11 at 14:03

RonK

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Thanks Ronk for ur suggetion. – Binaya May 30 '11 at 07:08
When you want to replace " with \", you also want to replace all other \ with \\. Hence the answer should probably be: `string.replaceAll("([\\\\\"])", "\\\\$1")` (replace \ and " with \\$1, given that $1 is the matched string in the regex). – Adrien Sep 22 '20 at 17:36

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered May 11 '11 at 18:33

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Although the other answers are correct for the single situation given, for more complicated situations, you may wish to use StringEscapeUtils.escapeJava(String) from Apache Commons Lang.

String escaped = StringEscapeUtils.escapeJava(string);

answered May 11 '11 at 18:33

ILMTitan

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered May 11 '11 at 14:04

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System.out.println("AAAAA\"1111".replaceAll("\"", "\\\\\""));

answered May 11 '11 at 14:04

MarcoS

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Replace double quotes(")

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