At first I thought of the obvious answer of replacing the \" with a
\\\", but on compiling a test program, that didn't work.
Looking at the javadoc, String.replace takes to chars, not strings, so
concatenating the \" wouldn't work here.
I tried replaceAll, which takes a String regex, String replacement
Here's the test:
public class TestString {
public TestString() {
} // TestString constructor
public static void main(String[] args) {
String originalString = "Original \"string\"";
System.out.println(originalString);
originalString.replaceAll("\"", "\\\"" );
System.out.println(originalString);
} // end of main()
} // TestString
It comiles and runs just fine, and according to the regexp rules
should output what you want, but the output looks like this:
Original "string"
Original "string"
This could be an artifact of the \ being interpreted as another escape
character within the System.out.println.
Of course, the test could be inaccurate because I had to escape the "
character in the originalString definition as well.
It's getting a bit more interesting now! :)
- Chris
Ray writes:
Hi folks,
I'm attempting to change all occurrences of double quotes ( " ) in a string to slash double
quotes ( \" ). What's the best way to do this? string.replace(' " ' , ' \" ') does
not work. Any ideas?
Ray
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