How to escape in String Format

Question

I am storing a SQL query in my strings xml file and I want to use String Format to build the final string in code   The SELECT statement uses a like  something like this   SELECT Field1  Field2 FROM mytable WHERE Field1 LIKE   something     In order to format that I replace  something  with  1 s so it becomes   SELECT Field1  Field2 FROM mytable WHERE Field1 LIKE     1 s      I escape the single quotes with the backslash   However I am not able to escape the   sign     How can I include a like statement in my strings xml file

User · Accepted Answer

To escape    you will need to double it up

User · Answer

This is a stronger regex replace that won t replace    that are already doubled in the input   str   str replaceAll            A            z

User · Answer

Here s an option if you need to escape multiple   s in a string with some already escaped                                     To sanitise the message before passing it to String format  you can use the following  Pattern p   Pattern compile                                     Matcher m1   p matcher log    StringBuffer buf   new StringBuffer    while  m1 find        m1 appendReplacement buf  log substring m1 start    m1 start 2            log substring m1 end 2   m1 end          Return the sanitised message String escapedString   m1 appendTail buf  toString      This works with any number of formatting characters  so it will replace   with         with             with        etc   It will leave any already escaped characters alone  e g           etc

User · Answer

To complement the previous stated solution  use   str   str replace

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