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Regular Expression: what is wrong here?

 
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What is wrong here?




The control is not going into the if loop...is the reg expr wrong?
I am trying to check if there is a * or a ~ with a space before and after in the keyword.
If yes then replace all such occurrences with a space.
 
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Question: What do you think "\\[*~]+" does? Hint: An escape only escapes one character.

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I'm confused with your pattern. Why do you have " \\s+". That means match 2 or more spaces---is that what you intended? If not, omit the extra space. Also why do you have "\\[" as that's a literal "[" so the character class won't apply... I think you really mean:If I were you, I'd use the Regex Test Applet to test your expressions before putting them in a Java app.
 
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Thank you for the hint. I got my answer. I have one question though!



This removes the * before CD also. How can i prevent it? I want it to remove only the last *. Can you help?
 
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JayaSiji, don't take this the wrong way, but it seems you work with regexes a lot, yet you don't take the time to learn them. That way, you keep relying on other people doing your work.
I highly recommend you start learning this stuff yourself.

Good luck.
 
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You want to match an asterisk or tilde that isn't adjacent to letters, plus any adjacent whitespace?
 
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