Re: how to escape forward slash?

[Don Vawter]

Like I said I hadn't tested it. My point about 1.42 was just that you 
didn't need to escape the /.

Ok, the following code works using the regexp library:
import org.apache.regexp.*;
public class Test {
   public static void main (String[] argv){
       try{
           String s = "A|b|c|d|e C/O \naaa\n\n\nSS|S";
           String re = "C[/]O";
           if(argv.length > 0) {
               re=argv[0];
           }
           if(argv.length > 1) {
               s=argv[1];
           }
           RE  r = new RE(re);
           String o= r.subst(s,"xxx");
           System.out.println(o);
       }
       catch (Exception e){
           System.out.println(e.getMessage());
       }
       System.exit(0);
   }
}
This works with either C/O  or C[/]O
Maybe I don't understand what you are trying to do but this replaces all 
occurences of C/O with xxx
You can try it with   java Test   <re>   <StringToApply>


Giovanni Azua wrote:
Hello Vawter,
It does not work for me, I tried exactly that already.
But I do not understand what you mean by 1.42??? 
since jakarta regexp latest release is 1.3 ...
if you mean 1.4x as JSE then I would not be using
jakarta regexp at all, I need regexp jakarta because
I am tied to using JVM 1.3x only.

Additionally I can not hardcode the replacing 
within the java code because we have a large list
of transformation patterns that must be updateable 
without having to modify, recompile and redeploy the
java files, the transformation patterns (thesaurus) 
is included separately as a text (configuration) file.

Thanks in advance,
Best Regards,
Giovanni
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Don Vawter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 5:18 PM
To: Regexp Users List
Subject: Re: how to escape forward slash?
I think you can use:
/ C[/]O / /
I haven't tested this but in 1.42     
s.replaceAll("C/O","xxx") works fine

I haven't tested th
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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