Java Utililty Methods String Unquote

List of utility methods to do String Unquote

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Method

Stringunquote(String s)
unquote 
if (s == null) {
    return null;
if (s.startsWith("'") && s.endsWith("'") || s.startsWith("\"") && s.endsWith("\"")
        || s.startsWith("`") && s.endsWith("`")) {
    s = s.substring(1, s.length() - 1);
return s;
...
Stringunquote(String s)
unquote 
return unquote(s, "\"");
Stringunquote(String s)
unquote 
while (s.startsWith("\"")) {
    s = s.substring(1);
while (s.endsWith("\"")) {
    s = s.substring(0, s.length() - 1);
return s;
Stringunquote(String s)
unquote 
return s.startsWith("\"") ? s.substring(1, s.length() - 1) : s;
Stringunquote(String s)
Removes enclosinf apostrophes from the given string 
if (s.contains("'")) {
    return s.substring(s.indexOf("'") + 1, s.lastIndexOf("'"));
} else {
    return s;
Stringunquote(String s)
Removes one pair of leading/trailing quotes ("x" or 'x' or `x` becomes x). 
if (s == null) {
    return null;
char startChar = s.charAt(0);
char endChar = s.charAt(s.length() - 1);
if ((startChar == '\'' || startChar == '"' || startChar == '`') && startChar == endChar)
    return s.substring(1, s.length() - 1);
else
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Stringunquote(String s)
remove double quotes around a string 
if (s != null && s.length() > 1) {
    if (s.charAt(0) == '\"' && s.charAt(s.length() - 1) == '\"') {
        s = s.substring(1, s.length() - 1);
return s;
Stringunquote(String s, char c)
Useful for unquoting strings, since StringTokenizer won't do it for us. 
int firstq = s.indexOf(c);
int lastq = s.lastIndexOf(c);
if (isQuoted(s, c))
    return s.substring(firstq + 1, lastq);
return null;
Stringunquote(String str)
unquote 
if (str == null)
    return null;
return str.replaceFirst("^\\\"(.*)\\\"$", "$1");
Stringunquote(String str)
Removes single or double quotes from a String 
if (isBlank(str))
    return str;
if ((str.startsWith("'") && str.endsWith("'")) || (str.startsWith("\"") && str.endsWith("\""))) {
    return str.substring(1, str.length() - 1);
return str;