Need help in regexp 2

[royboy75]

Hello,

I am trying to replace something in a string using:
query.replaceAll("COUNT(*)", "*");

But I get:
java.util.regex.PatternSyntaxException: Dangling meta character '*' near index 6 COUNT(*) ^

Can someone please help me with this?

 

[Diancecht]

You have to scape the asterisk, with \* I guess.

Cheers,
Dian

 

[royboy75]

I tried it, not getting any error but it doesn't do the replacement either.
Here is what I've tried:
query = query.replaceAll("COUNT(\\*)", "\\*");

 

[Bong]

I think you might have to escape the partheses, too.

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Bob Rashkin

 

[royboy75]

Yep! working.
Thanx Guys.