Regex pattern including all special characters

Question

I want to write a simple regular expression to check if in given string exist any special character. My regex works but I don\'t know why it also includes all numbers, so wh

Answer 1

Please use this.. it is simplest.

\p{Punct} Punctuation: One of !"#$%&'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[]^_`{|}~

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/regex/Pattern.html

    StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder(checkstring);
    String regex = "\\p{Punct}"; //Special character : `~!@#$%^&*()-_+=\|}{]["';:/?.,><
    //change your all special characters to "" 
    Pattern  pattern = Pattern.compile(regex);
    Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(builder.toString());
    checkstring=matcher.replaceAll("");