Java Replace Regex not working

Question

Why doesn't this line of code work? It's supposed to replace all the punctuations with nothing.

m = m.replace("[\\?\\.;:'\"]", "")

m will not change after executing this line in java even though it contains punctuations. Why?

Dasblinkenlight nailed it. As a side note, there's no need to escape a question mark or period inside a character class. — phatfingers
– phatfingers, Commented Mar 24, 2013 at 3:27

Sergey Kalinichenko · Accepted Answer · 2013-03-24 03:18:16Z

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This is because replace takes a String; you need to call replaceAll, which does take a regular expression.

answered Mar 24, 2013 at 3:18

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