strOutput.replace("/{{[^]*?}}/g","");
Is there a way to convert JavaScript regexes to Java-safe regexes?
The above statement gives me the error:
Invalid escape sequence (valid ones are \b \t \n \f \r \" \' \\ )
I'm not all that familiar with regex, so I could use some guidance.
Thanks!
解决方案
Get rid of the forward slashes. You don't need those in Java. Also, Java's flavor of regex doesn't recognize switches like /g and /i; those are controlled by constants in java.util.regex.Pattern.
The only Javascript regex switches that make sense in the Java world are /i and /m. These map to Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE and Pattern.MULTILINE (you can use these switches when creating a regex from the Pattern class, or you can use them inline -- I'll show this later).
The /g doesn't map to anything, but you can control replace behavior by using String.replaceAll versus String.replaceFirst.
To get your code to work, you'd have to do something like this:
strOutput.replaceAll("{{[^]*?}}", "");
If you wanted to use switches, you need to do add something like (?i) to the beginning of the regex.
You can't use String.replace because it takes in a CharSequence for the first argument and not a regex.
Also keep in mind that the "quick regex" methods offered by the String class may not work like you expect it to. This is because when you specify a pattern (let's say abc) as a regex for matches for example, the actual pattern seen by Java is ^abc$. So abc will match, but bc will not.
There is more information here.