Escape double quotes in Java

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Possible Duplicate    In Java  is there a way to write a string literal without having to escape quotes        private static final String CREATE TABLE EXHIBITORS    CREATE TABLE  users     id  text PRIMARY KEY   name  text  body  text  image  text  stand id  text  begin  long  end  long  changedate  long  website  text  facebook  text  myspace  text  twitter  text  festivallink  text  favorite  integer       Let s say I want this query to be a valid string in Java  Do I have to convert it to escape all double quotes with a trailing slash in front   e g      CREATE TABLE   users     Or is there a faster way to make this whole query a valid string at once  I thought you could use single quotes around the whole string to do that but that doesn t work either

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Yes you will have to escape all double quotes by a backslash

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Use Java s replaceAll String regex  String replacement   For example  Use a substitution char for the quotes and then replace that char with     String newstring   String replaceAll              or replace all instances of    with       String newstring   String replaceAll

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For a String constant you have no choice other than escaping via backslash   Maybe you find the MyBatis project interesting  It is a thin layer over JDBC where you can externalize your SQL queries in XML configuration files without the need to escape double quotes

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Escaping the double quotes with backslashes is the only way to do this in Java    Some IDEs around such as IntelliJ IDEA do this escaping automatically when pasting such a String into a String literal  i e  between the double quotes surrounding a java String literal   One other option would be to put the String into some kind of text file that you would then read at runtime

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