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

Question

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 st

Answer 1

My naive state machine implementation looks like this:

public String javaStringLiteral(String str)
{
    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder("\"");
    for (int i=0; i= 0x80)
        {
            sb.append(String.format("\\u%04x", (int)c));
        }
        else
        {               
            sb.append(c);
        }
    }
    sb.append("\"");
    return sb.toString();
}