[kepler-users] how to replace some strings to backslash ("\")?

[Christopher Brooks]

Hi Jianwu,
You would need to protect the backslash with a backslash.
Try replaceAll("a", "\\"")
I'm not sure if that will work.

In general, backslashes are somewhat evil.

For example: Is the string "\bc" three characters: backslash, b and c  
or two characters: backspace and c?

I'm not sure what replaceAll method you are calling here, I'm guessing 
you are invoking that method on a String?

A small test model would help.

I'm not confident that backslashes work well in the expression lange.

_Christopher

On 5/3/13 3:16 PM, Jianwu Wang wrote:
> Hi Christopher,
>
>     I'm using "Expression Evaluator" trying to replace some strings to 
> backslash, such as from "abc" to "\bc". Command like 
> replaceAll("a","\") always has error: Found unterminated string : 
> "\"). Similar attempts also failed.
>
>     I searched Kepler/Ptolemy documents and mailing lists and didn't 
> find answer. Would you please help me out? Thanks.
>

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