Hi Sachin,
On Jun 25, 2008, at 3:28 PM, Sachin Mittal wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I am having this weired problem.
> This is the velocity line
> #set($esctext = $text.replaceAll("\\s+",""))
>
> This should suppose to remove all the whitespaces in the text.
> If I execute same in java code it works fine.
>
> However if I use it in velocity code the same not working, we get
> $esctext
> same as $test.
>
> Now when I change the velocity code to
> #set($esctext = $text.replaceAll(" ",""))
> this is working all fine, and if the $text has single whitespaces,
> then this
> gets replaced.
>
> Thus bottom line is that replaceAll method is working fine and there
> is some
> issue with regexp only.
>
> Could someone please let me know if this is general issue with
> velocity or
> something to do with xwiki.
> Any reasons why its happening so?
I think that's because \ is the wiki syntax escape code so you need to
write \\\\ instead of \\
-Vincent
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