From a3e705a134fd9bf8750cd56bc22ad53862f3e12a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: rsiddharth Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:55:24 +0530 Subject: bug fix: parser/Nullit.java quotes the full regex before sending the regex to Pattern.compile(). modified: parsers/NullIt.java --- parsers/NullIt.java | 16 +++++++++------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) (limited to 'parsers') diff --git a/parsers/NullIt.java b/parsers/NullIt.java index ef710d7..d13f543 100644 --- a/parsers/NullIt.java +++ b/parsers/NullIt.java @@ -25,12 +25,14 @@ import java.util.regex.*; public class NullIt { public String nullIt(String content,String regex) { - Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile(regex); - Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(content); - while(matcher.find()) { - content = matcher.replaceFirst(""); - break; - } - return content; + // quote the regex. + String quotedRegex = "\\Q"+regex+"\\E"; + Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile(quotedRegex); + Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(content); + while(matcher.find()) { + content = matcher.replaceFirst(""); + break; + } + return content; } } -- cgit v1.2.3