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Compress 2 adjacent (single or double) quotes into a single (s or d) quote when found in the middle of a String.

      
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.util.Enumeration;
import java.util.Properties;

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public class Main {




  /**
   * Compress 2 adjacent (single or double) quotes into a single (s or d)
   * quote when found in the middle of a String.
   *
   * NOTE:  """" or '''' will be compressed into "" or ''.
   * This function assumes that the leading and trailing quote from a
   * string or delimited identifier have already been removed.
   * @param source string to be compressed
   * @param quotes string containing two single or double quotes.
   * @return String where quotes have been compressed
   */
  public static String compressQuotes(String source, String quotes)
  {
    String  result = source;
    int   index;

    /* Find the first occurrence of adjacent quotes. */
    index = result.indexOf(quotes);

    /* Replace each occurrence with a single quote and begin the
     * search for the next occurrence from where we left off.
     */
    while (index != -1) {
      result = result.substring(0, index + 1) +
           result.substring(index + 2);
      index = result.indexOf(quotes, index + 1);
    }

    return result;
  }

}

   
    
    
    
    
    
  








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