Java string inside string to string

Question

I have this string: "\"Blah \'Blah\' Blah\"". There is another string inside it. How do I convert that into: Blah 'Blah' Blah? (you see, unescaping the string.) This is because I get a SQL Where query:

WHERE blah="Blah \'Blah\' Blah"

When I parse this, I get the string above (still inside quotes and escaped.) How would I extract that, un-escaping the string? Or is ther some much easier way to do this? Thanks,
Isaac

Answer 1

DO NOT DO THIS.

Follow the proper steps for parametrization of a query on your Database/Platform, and you won't have to escape anything. You also will protect yourself from injection vulnerabilities.