Remove an apostrophe at the beginning or at the end of a word with regex

Question

I have a list of String that contains word. Some words have apostrophe at the beginning or/and at the end like this:

apple
\'orange
banana\'
joe\'s
         


        

Answer 1

I understand my mistake, I forgot to make the assignment…

myString = myString.replaceAll("(\B'\b)|(\b'\B)", "");

Thank you and sorry for this dumb question.