I have a huge string that looks like:

```
widgets: '{some-really-huge-string-omitted-for-brevity}'

```

And I would like to remove the single-quotes so that I get:

```
widgets: {some-really-huge-string-omitted-for-brevity}

```

In reality, `some-really-huge-string-omitted-for-brevity` is a massive string containing alphanumeric characters, punctuation, basically everything under the sun. My best attempt so far:

```
bigString = bigString.replaceAll("widgets: '\\{*\\}'", "widgets: \\{*\\}");

```

Doesn't throw any exceptions/errors, but also doesn't change a thing! When I print `bigString`, it's still the same as before the replace! Any ideas? Thanks in advance.