RE: how to escape forward slash?

Hello Michael and Vawter,

Thank you very much for your will to help.

I found out already, it was quite simple problem :-(
my thesaurus is a file having the columns:

<pattern><separator><replacement>

the separator I was using with StringTokenizer was=20
precisely forward slash (/) the rest you can easily=20
figure out :-) nothing to do with regex.

Thank you again,
Best Regards,
Giovanni

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael McCallum [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2004 1:52 AM
> To: Regexp Users List
> Subject: Re: how to escape forward slash?
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> Hi,=20
> The problem will be that whatever is parsing your thesaurus=20
> (text file) is not=20
> escaping the / so it only passes " C\" to regexp rather than=20
> " C/O / " as you=20
> desired. Hence the string is terminated with an escape, which=20
> is invalid.
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> kind regards
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> Michael
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> On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 04:50, 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:
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> |  org.apache.regexp.RESyntaxException: Syntax error: Escape=20
> terminates
> | string ...
> |  PATTERN ERROR in line: / C\/O / /
> |
> |  Thanks in advance,
> |
> |  Best Regards,
> |  Giovanni
> |
> | =20
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