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From: Jake Jarvis <pig_in_shoes@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Regex doesn't recognize single quote
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2012 23:48:24 +0100
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On 06.01.2012 23:08, Jerric wrote:
> Hi, I need to remove special characters, except \w and single quotes,
> from a string, can someone please help me on the regex?
>
> for example, I have "ab'de+fg", I want to get "ab'defg", and I tried
> the following code, but it removed single quote. seems to me java
> cannot handle the pattern like [^'].
>
> String val = "ab'de+fg";
> val = val.replaceAll("[^\\w']+", "");
>

That exact same code gives that result?

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Jake Jarvis