How do you replace double quotes with a blank space in Java?

Question

For example:

"I don't like these "double" quotes" 

and I want the output to be

I don't like these double quotes 

Answer 1

Use String#replace().

To replace them with spaces (as per your question title):

System.out.println("I don't like these \"double\" quotes".replace("\"", " ")); 

The above can also be done with characters:

System.out.println("I don't like these \"double\" quotes".replace('"', ' ')); 

To remove them (as per your example):

System.out.println("I don't like these \"double\" quotes".replace("\"", "")); 

Answer 2

You don't need regex for this. Just a character-by-character replace is sufficient. You can use String#replace() for this.

String replaced = original.replace("\"", " "); 

Note that you can also use an empty string "" instead to replace with. Else the spaces would double up.

String replaced = original.replace("\"", "");