code: function stripQuotes(text) {
    var sansquotes = text;
    if(isQuotedString(text)) {
      if(text.length === 2) {
          sanquotes = ""; // empty string
      }
      else {
        sansquotes = text.substring(1, text.length-1);
  // DELETE?      sansquotes = unescapeQuotes(sansquotes);
      }
    }
    return sansquotes;
  }
docs: strip the quotes from around a string if there are any
  otherwise return the string as given.
  since we are removing the quotes we also unescape quotes
  within the string.