remove substring in a string without using regex (cannot use replaceAll)

Question

I need to remove some substrings in strings (in a large dataset). The substrings often contain special characters, like these: ., ^, /,... and replaceAll() would treat them as special characters for regex, such as a dot would match any character, which is not really what I want.

Is there other functions to do the "replace" without treating the first argument as regex?

Answer 1

Just use String.replace(). It functions the same way, but it deals with escaping the special characters internally to avoid you having to worry about regex.

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