Java Utililty Methods String Dequote

String dequote(final String in)
dequote

if ((in != null) && !in.isEmpty() && isQuoted(in)) {
 return in.substring(1, in.length() - 1);
return in;

String deQuote(String in)
Removes quotes from a string

int len = in.length();
if (in.charAt(0) == '\"' && in.charAt(len - 1) == '\"') {
 if (len > 2) {
 return in.substring(1, len - 1);
 } else {
 return "";
return in;

String 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.

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;

String deQuote(String quotedString)
de Quote

if (quotedString.startsWith("'") && quotedString.endsWith("'")) {
 return (quotedString.substring(1, quotedString.length() - 1));
return (quotedString);

String dequote(String s)
dequote

return dequote(s, new char[] { '"', '\'' });

String deQuote(String s)
Removes single or double quotes surrounding a string

if (!isNullOrEmpty(s)) {
 char first = s.charAt(0);
 if (first == '\'' || first == '"') {
 int last = s.lastIndexOf(first);
 if (last > 0) {
 return s.substring(1, last);
return s;

String dequote(String str)
Remove quotes from a string, only if the input string start with and end with the same quote character.

char start = str.charAt(0);
if ((start == '\'') || (start == '\"')) {
 char end = str.charAt(str.length() - 1);
 if (start == end) {
 return str.substring(1, str.length() - 1);
return str;
...

String dequote(String str)
Simply removes double-quotes from the beginning and end of given string

if (str.startsWith("\""))
 str = str.substring(1);
if (str.endsWith("\""))
 str = str.substring(0, str.length() - 1);
return str;

String dequote(String str)
Remove leading and tailing unescaped quotes; remove escaping from escaped internal quotes.

str = str.replace("\\\"", "\"");
if (str.startsWith("\"")) {
 str = str.substring(1);
if (str.endsWith("\"")) {
 str = str.substring(0, str.length() - 1);
return str;
...

String dequote(String str, char quote)
Undoubles the quotes inside the string
Example:

 hello""world becomes hello"world 

if (str == null) {
 return null;
return dequote(str, 0, str.length(), quote);