Java String

In literal strings, backlash is considered as escape character. It is basically a single backlash i.e. “\\”. Backlash is also considered an escape character in case of regular expressions. A single backlash is matched to the regular expression \\. As a java string, regular expression would become “\\\\”. Four backlashes are used for matching just one single.

Word character is being matched with regex \w. It is abbreviated as "\\w".

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Tags: backslashes, literal strings, regular expressions

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