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Manish Giri
16,266 PointsIs there a way to avoid escaping backslashes in Java Regex?
Throughout the video, the examples using regex required escaping the \ to be interpreted as a regex, like - skills.split("\\W+");.
This can get very tedious if you have a lot of characters using the \, like \d , \w, \W. Is there a way to write Regex without having to escape the backslash? Like the way in JavaScript you can write regex anywhere in your code inside / /, without having to escape anything.
Example - /\d{3}\s*\w{4}/g.match(str)
2 Answers
Livia Galeazzi
Java Web Development Techdegree Graduate 21,083 PointsWell, yes, it's tedious. But no, there isn't a way to write regex without escaping backslash characters. You don't usually use regex as much with java as you do with javascript, though.
