How to escape double quote in the json

Question

I get data from external json source, which is like below

{"root":{"name":"Haf"eez","skills":["java","j2ee","jquery","ext-js"]}}

How to parse this in java. The word Hafeez has double quote in the center.

After escaping the above i would do

  jsonObject = new JSONObject(new JSONTokener(
            new InputStreamReader(input)));

Answer 1

Use a backslash to escape. Replace " with \\\\"

Using regex: str.replaceAll("([a-zA-Z0-9])(\\")([a-zA-Z0-9])", "$1\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"$3");