I'm trying to write a regular expression in Java which removes all non-alphanumeric characters from a paragraph, except the spaces between the words.
This is the code I've written:
paragraphInformation = paragraphInformation.replaceAll("[^a-zA-Z0-9\s]", "");
However, the compiler gave me an error message pointing to the s saying it's an illegal escape character. The program compiled OK before I added the \s to the end of the regular expression, but the problem with that was that the spaces between words in the paragraph were stripped out.
How can I fix this error?
解决方案
You need to double-escape the \ character: "[^a-zA-Z0-9\\s]"
Java will interpret \s as a Java String escape character, which is indeed an invalid Java escape. By writing \\, you escape the \ character, essentially sending a single \ character to the regex. This \ then becomes part of the regex escape character \s.