String manipulation

[lakshmibvaraprasad]

Hi,

I should convert a string, for eg; "boy"(input) into boy(i.e;in the output with out double quotes). Can someone help me on this?

thanks

[dlorde]

If the double-quotes are actually part of the input String, you can remove them using the String.substring(..) method to extract the substring starting at the second character (index 1) and ending at the length-1 character.

[lakshmibvaraprasad]

thanks for your reply..
This can be done, if my input is one string, Since I know the size. But, I have 10,000 strings in a file and i need to remove the double quotes for every string. After removing double quotes, I need to compare the string without double quotes with the string from other file. Is their any possibility for this?

[acmohan]

If you just want to remove double quotes hope you can use "replace" in string,which will help you out.and just compare with other strings.

[dlorde]

thanks for your reply..
This can be done, if my input is one string, Since I know the size. But, I have 10,000 strings in a file and i need to remove the double quotes for every string. After removing double quotes, I need to compare the string without double quotes with the string from other file. Is their any possibility for this?

Well you can either read the strings from the file and remove the double quotes from them one by one (then write them out to another file?), or, as acmohan suggested, read the whole file as a single string and replace the double quotes with empty strings. This assumes that you can read the file as a single string and that there are no double quotes in it that you don't want to remove.

You haven't supplied enough information to give a precise answer. If you explain what you're trying to achieve more exactly, you might get more useful answers...