Java: Replace all ' in a string with \'

Question

I need to escape all quotes (\') in a string, so it becomes \\\'

I\'ve tried using replaceAll, but it doesn\'t do anything. For some reason I can\'t get the regex to

Answer 1

You can use apache's commons-text library (instead of commons-lang):

Example code:

org.apache.commons.text.StringEscapeUtils.escapeJava(escapedString);

Dependency:

compile 'org.apache.commons:commons-text:1.8'

OR


   org.apache.commons
   commons-text
   1.8