remove only double quotes from string before and after square bracket

Question

I am trying to remove double quotes before square bracket like "[ and I am using following code to do it but it says illegal escape charecter.

  str = str.replace("\[","[");

I want to remove only double quotes ie " which is only before square bracket ie [. Please guide me.

Answer 1

Both replace() and replaceAll() do the job. Using replace, you don't have to cope with regular expressions. Don't get confused by the name. In fact replace replaces all occurrences, not just the first.

str = str.replace("\"[", "[");

Answer 2

You can use:

str = str.replaceAll("\"\\[", "[");