Hi All,
I am trying the following code line:
str.replaceAll("&", "&");
But Its not giving me the proper results. Seems that "&" in the string is never matched. As the first parameter, needs to be regex for this method. I tried various options, but it didnt work out.
Could someone please help me out to check the correct useage in this scenario.
Thanks in Advance.
> Hi All,
>
> I am trying the following code line:
>
>str.replaceAll("&", "&");
You want to replace all "&" with "&"?
> But Its not giving me the proper results.
What is the proper result and what is the result you expect. Give examples please.
> Seems that
> "&" in the string is never matched. As the first
> parameter, needs to be regex for this method. I tried
> various options, but it didnt work out.
What did you try? What does "didn't work" mean? Did you get no output? output that you didn't expect?
Thanks for quick replies. I guess the & and & confusion has got cleared with my last post.
I tried following options :
string abc = "&" + "amp" + ";" ;
1. str.replaceAll("[&]", abc);
2. str.replaceAll(Pattern.compile("&").toString(), abc);
3. str.replaceAll("\\p{&}", abc);
Some other similar to the above....
You don't need to construct the string with +s.
Try this You may only need to \\ one of the &s, as mlk suggests. First see if this works, then experiment:
str = str.replaceAll("\\&", "\\&");
Note that you can't just do str.replaceAll(...)
since Strings are immutable.
In fact, that may be the only problem and the & may have nothing to do with it.
