Question

I’m looking for the most efficient Java method that would allow me to ‘delete an embedded string’. For example, if i had the string "Bob said \"Hello world!\".", and I call the method on it, the result should be: "Bob said .". Help would be appreciated!

Note that I want this method to be general, so that if Bob says something besides “hello world” it would still work.

Answer 1

You can try

String string = "Bob said \"Hello world!\".";
string = string.replaceAll("\"[^\"]+\"", "");

Use replaceFirst if you only want to remove the first quoted text.