I am using Salesforce's email services to populate a Contact record with information submitted through a web form. A user fills out the web form, all of the information from the form is sent as an email, the Apex class parses the email, and populates the Contact record.

The problem I have is that I have picklist values on the form that have an apostrophe(') in them. They are "Bachelor's" and "Master's" . When the email class parses the information, the field on the Salesforce side is populated with"Bachelor's" or"Master's". Here is the Apex code that parses that line:

contact.Highest_Degree_Earned__c = getFieldValue(myPlainText,'Education:');

How can I account for a value returned with an apostrophe? This seemed to just started happening when we were upgraded to Spring 09 release.

Thanks