Here you can find the source of quote(String string)
public static String quote(String string)
//package com.java2s; /*//from w w w .jav a 2 s . c o m * #%L * SAMOA * %% * Copyright (C) 2013 Yahoo! Inc. * %% * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. * You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and * limitations under the License. * #L% */ public class Main { public static String quote(String string) { boolean quote = false; // backquote the following characters if ((string.indexOf('\n') != -1) || (string.indexOf('\r') != -1) || (string.indexOf('\'') != -1) || (string.indexOf('"') != -1) || (string.indexOf('\\') != -1) || (string.indexOf('\t') != -1) || (string.indexOf('%') != -1) || (string.indexOf('\u001E') != -1)) { string = backQuoteChars(string); quote = true; } // Enclose the string in 's if the string contains a recently added // backquote or contains one of the following characters. if ((quote == true) || (string.indexOf('{') != -1) || (string.indexOf('}') != -1) || (string.indexOf(',') != -1) || (string.equals("?")) || (string.indexOf(' ') != -1) || (string.equals(""))) { string = ("'".concat(string)).concat("'"); } return string; } public static String backQuoteChars(String string) { int index; StringBuffer newStringBuffer; // replace each of the following characters with the backquoted version char charsFind[] = { '\\', '\'', '\t', '\n', '\r', '"', '%', '\u001E' }; String charsReplace[] = { "\\\\", "\\'", "\\t", "\\n", "\\r", "\\\"", "\\%", "\\u001E" }; for (int i = 0; i < charsFind.length; i++) { if (string.indexOf(charsFind[i]) != -1) { newStringBuffer = new StringBuffer(); while ((index = string.indexOf(charsFind[i])) != -1) { if (index > 0) { newStringBuffer.append(string.substring(0, index)); } newStringBuffer.append(charsReplace[i]); if ((index + 1) < string.length()) { string = string.substring(index + 1); } else { string = ""; } } newStringBuffer.append(string); string = newStringBuffer.toString(); } } return string; } }