look at the following code:
String comment = "1)FCR pick up in Hong Kong2)Local charges will be paiy in Hong Kong & in HK$.3)Booking:[email protected])FCR&DOC:[email protected]:00852-23021977Fax:00852-2730217Transaction865320submittedVirginiaWong(T1281954U005) and Status is INCMP on 10-JUN-11 11.28.45.764386 PM -05:00";
//comment = comment.replaceAll("\\)", "\\\\)");
//comment = comment.replaceAll("\\(", "\\\\(");
if(comment == null || comment.length() < 100)
{
System.out.println();
}
String[] strArray = comment.split(" ");
for (int i = 0; i < strArray.length; i++)
{
if(strArray[i].length() > 100)
{
int iter = strArray[i].length() / 100 ;
int count = 100 ;
int initCount = 0 ;
String strReplace = null;
for(int j =0 ; j< iter ; j++)
{
strReplace = strArray[i].substring(initCount ,count);
String strToReplace = strReplace + "\n" ;
comment = comment.replaceAll(strReplace,strToReplace);
//comment = comment.replaceAll("\\)", "\\\\)");
//comment = comment.replaceAll("\\(", "\\\\(");
//comment = comment.replaceAll("\\\\", "");
System.out.println(comment);
System.out.println(comment.contains("\n"));
initCount = count; //+1 ;
count = count +100 ;
}
}
}
}
When I run I get the following exception:
Exception in thread "main" java.util.regex.PatternSyntaxException: Unmatched closing ')'
near index 4 HK$.3)Booking:[email protected])FCR&DOC:[email protected]:00852-
23021977Fax:00852-2
From my understanding I have to escape the parantheses'(',')', I tried to do this(look at the commented part in the code)there was nt any exception but the newline I am appending to the string doesn't seem to appear.
String.replaceAll
usess regular expressions for the first argument, and characters such as)
have special meaning when interpreted as regular expressions.Try
String.replace
instead. (It still replaces all occurrences of the given substring.)