Find and replace ( in a String

hi,

Can anyone please help me find and replace character ( in a string.
For example String is abc(xyz
how can i obtain the string abcxyz?

I tried the following code but it doesn work

Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("(");
Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher("abc(xyz");
String output = matcher.replaceAll("");

I get the error
Exception in thread "main" java.util.regex.PatternSyntaxException: Unclosed group near index 1
(
^
at java.util.regex.Pattern.error(Unknown Source)
at java.util.regex.Pattern.accept(Unknown Source)
at java.util.regex.Pattern.group0(Unknown Source)
at java.util.regex.Pattern.sequence(Unknown Source)
at java.util.regex.Pattern.expr(Unknown Source)
at java.util.regex.Pattern.compile(Unknown Source)
at java.util.regex.Pattern.<init>(Unknown Source)
at java.util.regex.Pattern.compile(Unknown Source)
at Tester.main(Tester.java:51)

Kindly point out my mistake or suggest an alternative.

Thanks,
Hamish

I have an Idea , which is a very simple ..
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String str = "abc(xyz",newStr="";
for(int x=0; x<str.length();x++)
if(str.charAt(x)>='a' ||str.charAt(x)>='z' )//a ssuming they are all lower cases
newStr =""newStr+str.charAt(x);

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I hope that helped - this code will only print letters while ..this -below- will not print this pranthes

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String str = "abc(xyz",newStr="";
for(int x=0; x<str.length();x++)
if(str.charAt(x)!='(' )

newStr =""newStr+str.charAt(x);

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There is a method in String, replace(CharSequence target, CharSequence replacement)

So, you could do

Code:

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String newString = oldString.replace("(", "");

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Code:

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System.out.println("abc(xyz".replace("(", ""));

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Hey thanks mate

No problem hamish .. gibsonrocker800 and i have same answer ... lol

Quote:

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Originally Posted by roots

No problem hamish .. gibsonrocker800 and i have same answer ... lol

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Hahah yea. When you posted your code i was like. Ah he thinks hes so cool because his code worked with one line of code. Mine required the extra System.out.println() hahaha. =]