Java Utililty Methods String Dequote

List of utility methods to do String Dequote

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Description

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Method

Stringdequote(final String in)
dequote 
if ((in != null) && !in.isEmpty() && isQuoted(in)) {
    return in.substring(1, in.length() - 1);
return in;
StringdeQuote(String in)
Removes quotes from a string 
int len = in.length();
if (in.charAt(0) == '\"' && in.charAt(len - 1) == '\"') {
    if (len > 2) {
        return in.substring(1, len - 1);
    } else {
        return "";
return in;
Stringdequote(String inputString)

This method takes a string and, if the string starts and ends with either " or ', returns the contained string.

Returns the original input string if the inputString's first and last characters were not matching single or double quote characters.

int last = inputString.length() - 1;
if ((inputString.charAt(0) == '"' && inputString.charAt(last) == '"')
        || (inputString.charAt(0) == '\'' && inputString.charAt(last) == '\'')) {
    return inputString.substring(1, last);
return inputString;
StringdeQuote(String quotedString)
de Quote 
if (quotedString.startsWith("'") && quotedString.endsWith("'")) {
    return (quotedString.substring(1, quotedString.length() - 1));
return (quotedString);
Stringdequote(String s)
dequote 
return dequote(s, new char[] { '"', '\'' });
StringdeQuote(String s)
Removes single or double quotes surrounding a string 
if (!isNullOrEmpty(s)) {
    char first = s.charAt(0);
    if (first == '\'' || first == '"') {
        int last = s.lastIndexOf(first);
        if (last > 0) {
            return s.substring(1, last);
return s;
Stringdequote(String str)
Remove quotes from a string, only if the input string start with and end with the same quote character. 
char start = str.charAt(0);
if ((start == '\'') || (start == '\"')) {
    char end = str.charAt(str.length() - 1);
    if (start == end) {
        return str.substring(1, str.length() - 1);
return str;
...
Stringdequote(String str)
Simply removes double-quotes from the beginning and end of given string 
if (str.startsWith("\""))
    str = str.substring(1);
if (str.endsWith("\""))
    str = str.substring(0, str.length() - 1);
return str;
Stringdequote(String str)
Remove leading and tailing unescaped quotes; remove escaping from escaped internal quotes. 
str = str.replace("\\\"", "\"");
if (str.startsWith("\"")) {
    str = str.substring(1);
if (str.endsWith("\"")) {
    str = str.substring(0, str.length() - 1);
return str;
...
Stringdequote(String str, char quote)
Undoubles the quotes inside the string
Example:
 hello""world becomes hello"world 
if (str == null) {
    return null;
return dequote(str, 0, str.length(), quote);