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danielle
danielle

Reputation: 1

How to remove this type of quotes “” instead of this type of quote "" in Java?

To remove quotation marks in Java,I understand I can use

replaceAll("\"", "");

Ex: "Hello World" becomes Hello World.

However, it only removes this type of quotation marks "". Is there a way to remove quotes like this “Hello World” ?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 218

Answers (2)

Stephen C
Stephen C

Reputation: 718758

If you simply want to remove those 3 kinds of double-quotes, irrespective of the context:

replaceAll("[\"“”]", "");

If there are other kinds of quote characters that you want to remove, just add them before the ].

These pages list some of the other quote characters that you might encounter:

And also see:

which talks about the difficulty in creating a regex to match all of them in a future-proof fashion.

Note that since we are including some "funky" characters (non-ASCII) in the source code (above), it is important that the Java compiler is aware of the character encoding that the source code uses. We could avoid that by using Unicode escapes instead. For example:

replaceAll("[\"\u201c\u201d]", "");

Upvotes: 3

Tim Biegeleisen
Tim Biegeleisen

Reputation: 520968

You may try a regex replacement here, e.g.

String input = "“Hello World”";
System.out.println(input.replaceAll("“(.*?)”", "$1"));  // prints Hello World

Upvotes: 0

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