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keenanbr

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I'm trying to replace all occurances of '[' with '\[' without success.

myString = "abcd[xnj]";

myString.replaceAll("\\[", "\\\\[");

can't get it to succeed.

help apreciated.

Regards,
 
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sorry, silly mistake it works

newString = myString.replaceAll("\\[", "\\\\[");
 
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You can reuse the first String

Code: 
myString = myString.replaceAll("\\[", "\\\\[");

Cheers,
Dian
 
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