regular expression 1

[justride]

Does anybody know the pattern to escape special characters if they arent already escaped?

for example, to escape TEST1&TEST2 but not TEST1 & TEST2

Thanks

 

[jaxtell]

try this

String stuff = "&&&&";
stuff = java.util.regex.Pattern.compile("&(?!amp;)", java.util.regex.Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE).matcher(stuff).replaceAll("&");

 

[justride]

Thanks a ton, so this stating any occurence of & followed by the NOT of 1 occurence of amp; (case insensitive) ?

Thanks so much!