Java doesn't work with regex \s, says: invalid escape sequence
- by Jayomat
hi,
I want to replace all whitespace characters in a string with a "+" and all "ß" with "ss"... it works well for "ß", but somehow eclipse won't let me use \s for a whitespace.. I tried "\t" instead, but it doesn't work either.. I get the following error:
Invalid escape sequence (valid ones
are \b \t \n \f \r \" \' \ )
this is my code:
try {
String temp1 = from.getText().toString();
start_from = temp1.replaceAll("ß", "ss");
start_from = start_from.replaceAll("\s", "+");
}
why doesn't it work? is it a problem with android, eclipse or what?
thanks in advance!
