Stripping specific chars from beginning/ending of a string

Question

Given a word-string in Java, I want to strip off from beginning and from end, exactly these specified set of characters:

[?:!.,;'\"«»]

as many times as they appear.

For instance, «Be!!» should become just Be, "Here!!!" should become Here, «I should become I.

Can anyone provide a correct way to do this?

In regex you can capture it like `[?:!.,;'\"«»]+(.*)[?:!.,;'\"«»]+` ;). — shA.t, Oct 11 '15 at 13:00
do you need to replace the characters in all words on just in the beginning/end of lines ? — Pedro Lobito, Oct 11 '15 at 13:01

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 11 '15 at 13:00

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Use an anchored regex in string.replaceAll function.

string.replaceAll("^[?:!.,;'\"«»]+|[?:!.,;'\"«»]+$", "");

answered Oct 11 '15 at 13:00

Avinash Raj

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