Question

I have a simple java code that reads text csv file that contains sentences with double quotations: “sentence1″,”sentence2″,”sentence3”. I want to read some of these sentences(e.g, sentence 1 and 3). I created a buffer reader and used readLine() then used: tokens = fileLine.split(","); where tokens is an array of strings.

I accessed the sentences I’m interested in using the array index as: tokens[0], tokens[3]. The problem is that, I want the sentences only without the double quotations. But my program saved the sentences with “”. How can I improve the parsing technique so I can save the sentences without “” ??

Answer 1

How about String#replaceAll:

theSentence = theSentence.replaceAll("\"", "");

In newer Java versions, I think from Java 5, you can use String#replace(CharSequence,CharSequence) as well:

theSentence = theSentence.replace("\"", "");

And avoid the overhead of regex