Simple no-dependency character sequence matching using quotations in Java. Source: http://stackoverflow.com/a/1473198

SimpleEscape.java

public static void main(String[] args) {
  String line = "/cmd \"test\"";
  Pattern p = Pattern.compile("\"([^\"]*)\"");
  Matcher m = p.matcher(line);
  
  while (m.find()) {
    System.out.println(m.group(1));
  }
}

Output: test

"This example assumes that the language of the line being parsed doesn't support escape sequences for double-quotes within string literals, contain strings that span multiple "lines", or support other delimiters for strings like a single-quote." - https://stackoverflow.com/users/3474/erickson