How to escape text for regular expression in Java

Question

Does Java have a built-in way to escape arbitrary text so that it can be included in a regular expression? For example, if my users enter \"$5\", I\'d like to match that exa

Answer 1

It may be too late to respond, but you can also use Pattern.LITERAL, which would ignore all special characters while formatting:

Pattern.compile(textToFormat, Pattern.LITERAL);