in src/main/java/org/apache/accumulo/access/AccessExpression.java [307:318]
public static String unquote(String term) {
if (term.equals("\"\"") || term.isEmpty()) {
throw new IllegalArgumentException("Empty strings are not legal authorizations.");
}
if (term.charAt(0) == '"' && term.charAt(term.length() - 1) == '"') {
term = term.substring(1, term.length() - 1);
return AccessEvaluatorImpl.unescape(new BytesWrapper(term.getBytes(UTF_8)));
} else {
return term;
}
}