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How can I make Java print quotes, like "Hello"?
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What is the backslash character (\\)?
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basically i want the output to be Path = "C:\Users\Public" and it seems to me that System.out.println("Path = "C:\Users\Public""); should work, but it doesn't so the question is why can't java just print the phrase as a combination of characters?
btw. this is my second time "programing" so please in simple terms if possible.
You should escape the special character such as " and \
System.out.println("Path = \"C:\\Users\\Public\"");
When you use backslash (\), java assumes that you are going to use an escape character. If you want to print that line you should probably use the method below and it should work. And you are using a string inside another one so you should use different types of inverted commas for both to tell the compiler that yeah there is a string inside another one. Otherwise the compiler will assume the middle inverted comma to be the closing one.
You can escape each and every escape character. If you notice I have used a backslash before inner inverted commas (" ") and every other backslash (\). Using a backslash before any escape character escapes it. So this should work.
System.out.println("Path = \"C:\\Users\\Public\"");
I hope now you can print your required output.
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My regex is matching too much. How do I make it stop? [duplicate]
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I want to replace &sp; in the string below with Z.
Input text : ABCD&sp;EF&p;GHIJ&bsp;KL
Output text : ABCDZEFZGHIZKL
Can anyone tell me how to replace the every instance of &\D+; using java regular expression?
I am using /(&\D+;)?/ but it doesn't work.
Use String#replaceAll.
You also should use the ? modificator to +:
String str = "ABCD&sp;EF&p;GHIJ&bsp;KL";
String regex = "&\\D+?;";
System.out.println (str.replaceAll(regex,"Z"));
This should work
Match the initial &, then all characters that are not the tailing ;, then that tailing ; like so: &[^;]+; If not matching numbers (as suggested by your example with \D) is a requirement, add the numbers to the negated character set: [^;0-9] To make it replace all occurrences, add the global flag g. The site regexr.com is a handy tool to create regexes.
Edit: Sorry, I initially read your question wrong.
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illegal string body character after dollar sign
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I am using spock to test a java app.It seems "$" is a special character in groovy.any java string that is separated by "$" can't be separated in groovy properly.Any workaround for this problem?
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The "split" happened in java code that I can't edit. It turns out that java code has a problem same as:Why can't I split a string with the dollar sign?
I don't think $ is a special character in Groovy strings. Edit: Yes, it is, if you use GStrings! But the rest may still be useful: But it's a special character in the string you give to String#split, because that string is interpreted as a regular expression, and in a regular expression, $ is "end of input" (or end of line, depending on flags).
If you're using String#split, to make it split on a literal $, you have to escape it with a backslash. To make the regex engine see a backslash, you have to escape the backslash in a string literal with another backslash.
Example:
'testing$one$two$three'.split('\\$').each {
println it
}
Output:
testing
one
two
three
Better yet, as suggested by Dónal, use tokenize:
Example:
'testing$one$two$three'.tokenize('$').each {
println it
}
(Same output)
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Replacing single '\' with '\\' in Java
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I am using Java for a while and come up with this problem:
I use hard-coded paths in windows like
"D:\Java-code\JavaProjects\workspace\eypros\src"
The problem is that I need to escape the backslash character in order to use it with string. So I manually escape each backslash:
"D:\\Java-code\\JavaProjects\\workspace\\eypros\\src"
Is there a way to automatically take the unescaped path and return an escaped java string.
I am thinking that maybe another container besides java string could do the trick (but I don't know any).
Any suggestions?
public static String escapePath(String path)
{
return path.replace("\\", "\\\\");
}
The \ is doubled since it must be escaped in those strings also.
Anyway, I think you should use System.getProperty("file.separator"); instead of \.
Also the java.io.File has a few methods useful for file-system paths.
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How to split a comma separated String while ignoring escaped commas?
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I'm looking for a regular expression to match , but ignore \, in Java's regex engine. This comes close:
[^\\],
However, it matches the previous character (in addition to the comma), which won't work.
Perhaps the regular expression approach is the wrong one altogether. I was intending to use String.split() to parse a simple CSV file (can't use an external library) with escaped commas.
You need a negative look-behind assertion here:
String[] arr = str.split("(?<![^\\\\]\\\\),");
Note that you need 4 backslashes there. First escape the backslash for Java string literal. And then again escape both the backslashes for regex.
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How can I make Java print quotes, like "Hello"?
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I want to print inverted quotes in java. But how to print it?
for(int i=0;i<hello.length;i++) {
String s=hello[i].toLowerCase().trim();
System.out.println(""+s+"");
}
expected OP: "hi".....
Because double quotes delimit String values, naturally you must escape them to code a literal double quote, however you can do it without escaping like this:
System.out.println('"' + s + '"');
Here, the double quote characters (") have been coded as char values. I find this style easier and cleaner to read than the "clumsy" backslashing approach. However, this approach may only be used when a single character constant is being appended, because a 'char' is (of course) exactly one character.
As quotes are used in the Java source code to represent a string, you need to escape them to create a string that contains a quote
System.out.println("\""+s+"\"");
You must escape the quotes: \"
Assuming that by "Inverted" quotes you meant "Left" and "Right" specific quotation marks, you could do it like this:
System.out.println('\u201C'+s+'\u201D'); // Prints: “s”
System.out.println('"'+s+'"'); // Prints: "s"
If you are really looking for inverted quotes, use this:
System.out.println('\u201C' + s + '\u201D');
It'll output “hi”, not "hi".
You need to have a font installed, though, that supports this, otherwise you might get a box or something instead. Most Windows fonts do.