escaping html characters and a string starting with double quote

[sony vijay]

Hi,

1) Would the following method work to replace html characters? Specially, I am confused with the double quotes. I tried replaceAll("\"", """) for this in the below method. I am not sure if this is right.

static String escapeHtmlEntities(String s) {
        return s.replaceAll("&", "&").replaceAll("<", "<").replaceAll(">", ">").replaceAll("\"", """).
        replaceAll(":", ":").replaceAll("/", "/");
    }

2) I need to create a string which starts and ends with double quotes (eg: "sony"). So, do I replace " with \" in my string? For some reason this doesn't seem to work.

String sony = "\"sony\""

Thanks,
Sony

[Campbell Ritchie]

You won't manage "\"" and """. You would need to escape both the \ and the ", so try "\\\"" and "\""