reg ex groups off

[sks]

Is it possible to disable support for groups when using appendReplacement in
Matchers ?

Ie, my replacement string contains many uses of the dollar symbol and then
numbers (for money $9 etc) and at the moment I have to first escape that
string before using it as the replacement which seems to be inefficient.

 

[Oliver Wong]

Is it possible to disable support for groups when using appendReplacement
in Matchers ?

Ie, my replacement string contains many uses of the dollar symbol and then
numbers (for money $9 etc) and at the moment I have to first escape that
string before using it as the replacement which seems to be inefficient.

Maybe
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/regex/Pattern.html#quote(java.lang.String)
will help?

- Oliver

 

[Jussi Piitulainen]

Is it possible to disable support for groups when using
appendReplacement in Matchers ?

Ie, my replacement string contains many uses of the dollar symbol
and then numbers (for money $9 etc) and at the moment I have to
first escape that string before using it as the replacement which
seems to be inefficient.

You can say

m.appendReplacement(sb, "dog ");
sb.append("$9");