Question

I have:

String ex = "INSERT INTO `countries` VALUES (1, 'Afghanistan')";

How can I remove everything except what is in ‘ ‘ with java? What is inside quotes is variable.

Answer 1

You can take pieces and parts out of the String by using the substring, indexOf, and lastIndexOf methods. You just may have to loop through a few times in case there is more than 1 pair of quotes found within the text. However, if it’s just one, you could use this:

ex.substring(ex.indexOf("'"), ex.lastIndexOf("'"));

These will include the quotation marks. If you do not want the quotation marks, you would do:

ex.substring(ex.indexOf("'") + 1, ex.lastIndexOf("'") - 1);