Question

I’m trying to replace the “^” character on a String using:

String text = text.replaceAll("^", "put this text");

If text as the following value:

"x^my string"

The resulting String is:

"put this textx^my string"

This only happens in case of the ^ character

Why is this?

Answer 1

Just use the non-regex version String.replace() instead of String.replaceAll():

text = text.replace("^", "put this text");