How to remove only starting and ending special character from a string?

Question

I want to remove only the starting special character ie " and ending special character ". The given input string is

String input= "\"This#string%contains^special*characters&.\"";

The expected output is

String output= "This#string%contains^special*characters&.";

Can any one help me how to do this using regex or any other way to remove only starting and ending special character only from the input string in java.

Answer 1

I would use a regex approach:

String input= "\"This#string%contains^special*characters&.\"";
String output = input.replaceAll("^[^A-Za-z0-9]|[^A-Za-z0-9]$", "");
System.out.println(output);

This prints:

This#string%contains^special*characters&.