Replace all double quotes within String

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I am retrieving data from a database  where the field contains a String with HTML data  I want to replace all of the double quotes such that it can be used for parseJSON of jQuery   Using Java  I am trying to replace the quotes using    details replaceAll                   details replaceAll        amp quote     details replaceAll        amp  34      The resultant string doesn t show the desired change   An O Reilly article prescribes using Apache string utils  Is there any other way    Is there a regex or something that I could use

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I think a regex is a little bit of an overkill in this situation  If you just want to remove all the quotes in your string I would use this code   details   details replace

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Would not that have to be    replaceAll                  FIVE backslashes in the replacement String

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The following regex will work for both     text   text replaceAll                 1

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This is to remove double quotes in a string   str1   str replace    g       alert str1

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Here s how  String details    Hello   world      details   details replace               System out println details                    Hello   world      Note that strings are immutable  thus it is not sufficient to simply do details replace               You must reassign the variable details to the resulting string     Using  details   details replaceAll        amp quote       instead  results in  Hello  amp quote world amp quote

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String info    Hello   world      info   info replace                 String info1    Hello  world    info1   info1 replace            replace                  For the 2nd field info1  1st replace double quotes with an escape character

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To make it work in JSON  you need to escape a few more character than that   myString replace                    replace                    replace   r      r        replace   n      n     and if you want to be able to use json2 js to parse it then you also need to escape      replace   u2028      u2028       replace   u2029      u2029     which JSON allows inside quoted strings  but which JavaScript does not

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I know the answer is already accepted here  but I just wanted to share what I found when I tried to escape double quotes and single quotes   Here s what I have done  and this works     to escape double quotes       if string contains                  string   string replaceAll                          and to escape single quotes        if string contains                  string   string replaceAll                         PS  Please note the number of backslashes used above

[java] Replace all double quotes within String

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