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Re: Regexp exception in String.replaceAll

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On 9/26/12 12:26 PM, Daniele Futtorovic wrote:
> On 26/09/2012 19:00, markspace allegedly wrote:
>> On 9/26/2012 9:35 AM, Tim Slattery wrote:
>>> So before JSE6, if you needed String
>>> arguments, you had a choice of ReplaceAll or ReplaceFirst. Since I
>>> needed to allow for multiple occurrences of the replace string, I had
>>> to use ReplaceAll, and I missed this trap. (And I never considered
>>> that anybody would use a dollar sign in a filename!). Now that we're
>>> using JSE6, I can just change it to call replace instead of
>>> replaceAll.
>>
>>
>> Just to be a little pendantic here, I'm pretty sure that the "new"
>> String::replace just calls Pattern.quote before calling
>> String.replaceAll/First.  Pattern.quote has been around since Java 1.5,
>> so it's not really new.
>>
>> <http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/regex/Pattern.html#quote%28java.lang.String%29>
>
> To be a little pedantic myself and for the record, I don't think the
> quoting of a Pattern and the quoting of a replacement string are the
> same type of quoting.
>
Indeed, Pattern.quote is for quoting the pattern, and 
Matcher.quoteReplacement is for quoting the replacement.  The OP should 
be using both.

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Regexp exception in String.replaceAll Tim Slattery <Slattery_T@bls.gov> - 2012-09-26 08:57 -0400
  Re: Regexp exception in String.replaceAll Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-09-26 09:13 -0400
  Re: Regexp exception in String.replaceAll Steven Simpson <ss@domain.invalid> - 2012-09-26 15:18 +0100
  Re: Regexp exception in String.replaceAll Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2012-09-26 16:30 +0200
    Re: Regexp exception in String.replaceAll Tim Slattery <Slattery_T@bls.gov> - 2012-09-26 12:35 -0400
      Re: Regexp exception in String.replaceAll markspace <-@.> - 2012-09-26 10:00 -0700
        Re: Regexp exception in String.replaceAll Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2012-09-26 21:26 +0200
          Re: Regexp exception in String.replaceAll Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-09-26 13:27 -0700
            Re: Regexp exception in String.replaceAll markspace <-@.> - 2012-09-26 14:31 -0700
      Re: Regexp exception in String.replaceAll Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-09-26 13:32 -0700
  Re: Regexp exception in String.replaceAll Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-09-26 09:43 -0700
  Re: Regexp exception in String.replaceAll Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-09-27 12:10 -0700

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