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How to add double quotes to a string in Java?

Adding double quotes to a string: Here, we are going to learn how to add double quotes to a string in Java?
Submitted by Preeti Jain, on July 05, 2019

• In Java, everything written in double-quotes is considered a string and the text written in double-quotes is display as it is.
• Suppose, if we want to add double quotes to a string then we need [\"] escape sequence to escape quotes.
• Let us suppose if we have a string "Preeti" and simply it will display like this preeti and if we want to add double quotes to string (i.e. display like "preeti" ) then we will write a statement like this "\"Preeti\"".

We will understand this thing with the help of an Example...

Example:

public class AddQuotesToString {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // Create a string named str1 with value Java 
        // and display like this Java.
        String str1 = "Java";
        
        // Create a string named str2 with value OOPS 
        // and display like this Java "OOPS".
        // For adding double quotes to OOPS  
        // then we need or add \" escape sequence to escape quotes 
        // around both side string.
        String str2 = " \" OOPS \" ";
        System.out.println("Display String without quotes " + " " + str1);
        System.out.println("Display String with quotes " + " " + str2);
    }
}

Output

D:\Programs>javac AddQuotesToString.java

D:\Programs>java AddQuotesToString
Display String without quotes  Java
Display String with quotes   " OOPS "