How to escape text for regular expression in Java

Question

Does Java have a built-in way to escape arbitrary text so that it can be included in a regular expression? For example, if my users enter \"$5\", I\'d like to match that exa

Answer 1

Difference between Pattern.quote and Matcher.quoteReplacement was not clear to me before I saw following example

s.replaceFirst(Pattern.quote("text to replace"), 
               Matcher.quoteReplacement("replacement text"));