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From: Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Regex doesn't recognize single quote
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 22:23:41 +0000 (UTC)
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On Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:08:49 -0800, 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']+", "");
> 
Did you try escaping the single quote?


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