Invalid Escape sequence java

Question

I am trying do that but it keeps give me error invalid escape format. I was trying to remove some backslash but didn't work

private string chars = "(lP+" (\\w+)/\\d{3} \\d+ \\w+ \\S+\\s?\"?($|-|[\\w\\\\\.@]+)\"?")";

Answer 1

• String should have a capital 'S'
• You've missed esacaping a couple of the quotation marks.
• You have a run of five backslashes, which should either be 4 or 6.

You probably want something like this instead...

private String chars = "(lP+\" (\\w+)/\\d{3} \\d+ \\w+ \\S+\\s?\"?($|-|[\\w\\\\\\.@]+)\"?\")";

Answer 2

private String chars = "(lP+\" (\\w+)/\\d{3} \\d+ \\w+ \\S+\\s?\"?(\\$|-|[\\w\\\\.@]+)\"?\")";