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The Java Programming Language

• The Problem with Regex Search and Replace in Java 15 July 2021
  • java
  • programming
  • regex

  I had an issue where I needed to support search and replace of certain quoted strings in various scripts which take the form of $(VARNAME). There’s a minor issue with Java where if the replaced by string contains certain characters where it will quit with an unhelpful message like “IndexNotFound: Match group 5 not found” or something similar. This is how to resolve that error, and the importance of escaping things.