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I have a string and when I try to run the replaceAll method, I am getting this strange error:
String str = "something { } , op";
str = str.replaceAll("o", "\n"); // it works fine
str = str.replaceAll("{", "\n"); // does not work
and i get a strange error:
Exception in thread "main" java.util.regex.PatternSyntaxException:
Illegal repetition {
How can I replace the occurrences of "{" ?
A
{is a regex meta-character used for range repetitions as{min,max}. To match a literal{you need to escape it by preceding it with a\\: