On Tue, 6 Sep 2022 20:36:27 GMT, Sean Mullan <[email protected]> wrote:
>> My understanding: In regex, there is no need to escape `"`, so `"` is the
>> same as `"`.
>
> Ok,but the regex is `"\\""`, so shouldn't it keep the double-backslash at the
> beginning (`\`)?, i.e.:
>
> `...replaceAll("\"", "\\\\\\""));`
The regex `"` is enough, so as a Java string it is `"""`.
Before this code change, we thought the regex should be `"` (not wrong, just
wasteful), and we wrote it as `"\\""` in Java.
The replacement string is another thing and the quotation mark is also not
special there, but IJ has not given any suggestion.
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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/9972
