how to escape forward slash?

"Giovanni Azua" <[email protected]> Wed, 10 Nov 2004 16:50:00 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.jakarta.regexp.user
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

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