Replacing all " into \" in a string.

I have a huge string which contains ". I have to change all the " into \". I tried the String.replace( ) but not sure how to make it work. I need that special escape character to specify for the replacement. Please help.....

Try replaceAll( string, string).Not quite so simple as implied by this. The first parameter is a regular expression and the second is related to a regular expression. What you need is
String aNotSoHugeString = "jlk\"fal auf\"ha fi\nhfaj\"hflkj ljkfh jfa\"ljf\n";
String updatedNotSoHugeString = aNotSoHugeString.replaceAll("\"","\\\\\"");To understand more check out java.util.regex.Pattern.
:-( One day I might catch up with the rest of the world!
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