remove substring in a string without using regex (cannot use replaceAll)

Question

I need to remove some substrings in strings (in a large dataset). The substrings often contain special characters, like these: ., ^, /,... and replaceAll() would treat them as s

Answer 1

Is there other functions to do the "replace"

Yes, it is called replace :) Main difference between it and replaceAll is that it escapes regex special characters.

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BTW if you want to escape regex's special characters in string you can

• use yourString = Pattern.quote(yourString),
• surround it with "\\Q" and "\\E",

to escape only some special characters you can

• use "\\" before them like \\.
• also most special characters can be escaped by surrounding them with "[" and "]" like [.].