Have a look at String.replaceAll()

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ng.String,%20java.lang.String)>

Thomas

You have several implementation options that mainly fall into two
catagories: Code a loop that scans throught the characters of the string
and build up a new string without the quotes, or use regular
expressions. The loop is good if you want to control resources (CPU and
RAM) spend solving the problem, and the regex is good if you just want
to write it simple.

If you use Java 1.5, the regex can be done like:

 String str1 = " .... ";
 String str1WithoutQuotes = str1.replaceAll("\"","");

In Java 1.4 the same effect can be achieved by

 String str1WithoutQuotes =
java.util.regex.Pattern.compile("\"").matcher(str1).replaceAll("");

If you have plenty of those I recommend you put it into a convenience
method somewhere like

private static final java.util.regex.Pattern QUOTE_PATTERN =
Pattern.compile("\"");

public static String removeQuotes(String s) {
 return QUOTE_PATTERN.matcher(s).replaceAll("");
}

Regards,

I assume you are not complaining about the use of \ and you want to
avoid dealing with that, but that you want to get rid of " in a
string. You get rid of it the same way you would any other character.

It may be easier to follow what I am doing if I want to get rid of all
the Zs.  I trust you can deal with converting every Z to \" when you
write the code.

if ( text == null )
 {
 // nothing to do.
 return null;
 }

if ( text.indexOf( 'Z' ) < 0 )
 {
 // nothing to do.
 return text;
 }

StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder( text.length );

for ( int i=0; i<text.length(); i++ )
{
  char c = text.charAt( i );
   if ( c != 'z' )
      {
      sb.append( c );
      }
}
return sb.toString();