I had a string named “remarks” with the following value in it
10/17/2014 07:14 AM test1
test1
test1
test1
10/17/2014 07:14 AM dfgdfg
I tried to replace all line feeds in this string with a particular character set in java and so I tried the following
String re = remarks1.replaceAll("\n","$#$”);
System.out.println(re);
This kept giving me illegal arguments exception.
So I tried
String re = remarks1.replaceAll("\\n","$#$");
System.out.println(re);
Now I felt weird. This is not normal behavior as most of my searches said this should work. Hence I felt a little irritated and I tried a different string instead of “$#$”. It was a stupid attempt though. But to my astonishment it worked fine
Curse compiler. Stupid same and its issue with “$” characters
Following worked at last
String re = remarks1.replaceAll("\\n","@#@");
System.out.println(re);
The output was
10/17/2014 07:14 AM test1@#@test1@#@test1@#@test1@#@10/17/2014 07:14 AM dfgdfg@#@
At ease 0.0 grrr
