How would you convert a String to a Java string literal?

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Published on 2010-03-16T09:36:44Z Indexed on 2010/03/16 9:56 UTC
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This is sort of the Java analogue of this question about C#.

Suppose I have a String object which I want to represent in code and I want to produce a string literal that maps to the same thing.

I was just about to write a state machine that ingests the string character by character and escapes appropriately, but then I wondered if there was a better way, or a library that provides a function to do this.

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