Here you can find the source of dequote(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.
public static String dequote(String inputString)
//package com.java2s; /*//www . j a v a2s . co m StringUtils.java Created: 24 March 2000 Module By: Jonathan Abbey, jonabbey@arlut.utexas.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ganymede Directory Management System Copyright (C) 1996-2013 The University of Texas at Austin Ganymede is a registered trademark of The University of Texas at Austin Contact information Web site: http://www.arlut.utexas.edu/gash2 Author Email: ganymede_author@arlut.utexas.edu Email mailing list: ganymede@arlut.utexas.edu US Mail: Computer Science Division Applied Research Laboratories The University of Texas at Austin PO Box 8029, Austin TX 78713-8029 Telephone: (512) 835-3200 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */ public class Main { /** * <p>This method takes a string and, if the string starts and * ends with either " or ', returns the contained string.</p> * * <p>Returns the original input string if the inputString's first * and last characters were not matching single or double quote * characters.</p> */ public static String dequote(String inputString) { 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; } }