java new line replacement

Question

I am wondering about why I don\'t get the expected result with this one:

String t = \"1302248663033   

        

Answer 1

Yes, \n is special. It is an escape sequence that stands for a newline. You need to escape it in a string literal in order for it to be actually interpreted the way you want. Append a \ before the sequence so that it looks like this:

"\\n"

Now your program should look like this:

String t = "1302248663033   ";
t = t.replaceAll("\\n", "");
System.out.println(t);

Of course if the string t is coming from somewhere rather than actually being typed by you into the program then you need only add the extra slash in your call to replaceAll()

Edited according to comments.