Comments on: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Illegal group reference in String.replaceAll

By: Raghavan alias Saravanan M

Raghavan alias Saravanan M — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 09:32:09 +0000

A good post!

// This incident reminds me that debugging can teach us a lot than the actual development.//

Well said

By: Ali Hammad

Ali Hammad — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 11:41:10 +0000

Thank you very much Veera, that solved my problem. A huge string that may take a whole day to find the error. I just removed $ and its working, wow, what a fail:P

By: Veera

Veera — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 06:29:37 +0000

that should word.

By: Philon

Philon — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 12:24:39 +0000

dudes,

String oldPattern = Pattern.quote( aOldPattern );
String newPattern = Matcher.quoteReplacement( aNewPattern );
return aInput.replaceAll( oldPattern, newPattern );

By: thizz

thizz — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 10:56:32 +0000

thx you saved a lot of my time