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From: Knute Johnson <eternal@knutejohnson.com>
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Subject: Re: Regex?
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 22:03:10 -0700
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Pattern.compile(Pattern.quote("the string with the ) in it"));

I hate that, look for it for an hour, write something here and then come 
across the answer 2 minutes later.

k...

On 6/19/2014 21:39, Knute Johnson wrote:
> How do you search for a String that contains a character such as ( that
> is special to a regex?
>
> Thanks,
>


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Knute Johnson