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It would be very useful to have Inspect & Transform provide a transformation for cases where the code appends single-character strings instead of using characters. I.e. stringBuilder.append("1"); should be replaced by: stringBuilder.append('1'); PMD has a rule that finds these things: AppendCharacterWithChar, but, alas, PMD doesn't fix things for you :-(