Issue with regex replaceAll

Question

I'm trying to turn, a/b/c.x.y into abc. However there seems to be an issue with my regular expression, specifically with '\\.*'.

 "a/b/c.x".replaceAll( "/|\\.*", "" );

yields:

 "abcx"

Any insight would be great, thanks!

Answer 1

You're replacing any slash or "any number of dots" with an empty string.

I suspect you mean any slash or "a dot followed by any number of any characters" which would be:

replaceAll("/|\\..*", "");

That certainly works for me with the sample value.