How do you replace double quotes with a blank space in Java?

Question

For example:

\"I don\'t like these \"double\" quotes\"

and I want the output to be

I don\'t like these double quotes
         


        

Answer 1

You don't need regex for this. Just a character-by-character replace is sufficient. You can use String#replace() for this.

String replaced = original.replace("\"", " ");

Note that you can also use an empty string "" instead to replace with. Else the spaces would double up.

String replaced = original.replace("\"", "");