Java replace all square brackets in a string

Question

I want to remove square brackets from a string, but I don\'t know how.

String str = \"[Chrissman-@1]\";
str = replaceAll(\"\\\\[\\\\]\", \"\");

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Answer 1

Your regex matches (and removes) only subsequent square brackets. Use this instead:

str = str.replaceAll("\\[|\\]", "");

If you only want to replace bracket pairs with content in between, you could use this:

str = str.replaceAll("\\[(.*?)\\]", "$1");