Hi, 
The problem will be that whatever is parsing your thesaurus (text file) is not 
escaping the / so it only passes " C\" to regexp rather than " C/O / " as you 
desired. Hence the string is terminated with an escape, which is invalid.

kind regards

Michael

On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 04:50, Giovanni Azua wrote:
|  Hello all,
|
|  Does anyone know how to escape forward
|  slash using jakarta regexp, the funny
|  thing is that sed understand well the
|  escaping of forward slash: \/ but regexp
|  does not.
|
|  e.g. when providing the pattern:
|
|  / C\/O / /
|
|  I get the following error:
|
|  org.apache.regexp.RESyntaxException: Syntax error: Escape terminates
| string ...
|  PATTERN ERROR in line: / C\/O / /
|
|  Thanks in advance,
|
|  Best Regards,
|  Giovanni
|
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