Re: Regx problem

From	Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.help
Subject	Re: Regx problem
Date	2017-08-27 16:53 -0400
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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On 8/27/2017 4:30 PM, IchBin wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Aug 2017 12:17:11 -0400, IchBin wrote:
> 
>> I have always had a hard time with regx. Even the simple things like
>> this one. All I want to do is replace a string with another string. In
>> this case a ' replaced with ''.
>>
>> I am trying:
>> rsNname = rsNname.replaceAll("\\d \\D \\W \\w \\S \\s", "''");
>> rsNname = rsNname.replaceAll("[+.-^]", "''");
>> rsNname = rsNname.replaceAll("[$&+,:;=?@#|'<>.^*()%!-]", "''");
>> rsNname = rsNname.replaceAll("['++]", "\\''");
>>
>> Nomatter what I do I get a compli error "Derefferencing pointer
>> error". Any one have any suggestions.
>>
>> I could write code to do the same but seems better to do in one
>> commane.
>>
>> Thanks in advance
> 
> Thanks but I fixed it. What I needed was
> 
> rsNname = rsNname.replaceAll("\''","''");

     This "replacement" is a no-op; it accomplishes nothing.
I'll repeat my earlier suggestion: Show us your code, and give
a careful description of what you're trying to do.

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esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid
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