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From: Rafael Villar <morgano5@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Regex doesn't recognize single quote
Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2012 09:10:45 +1000
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Mea Culpa, Sorry, it seems Roedy didn't understand the original problem,
and also I didn't understand what Roedy was understanding (sorry Roedy)

Anyway, a simpler method that does what Roedy intends to do:

/** remove ' and \w from string
 * @param s string to process
 * @return string without ' or \w
 */
private static String scrunch( final String s ) {
   return s.replaceAll("['\\w]+", "");
}

However the original problem is unknown as the original code is actually
working.