Regex for special characters in java

Question

public static final String specialChars1= \"\\\\W\\\\S\";
String str2 = str1.replaceAll(specialChars1, \"\").replace(\" \", \"+\");

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Answer 1

This worked for me:

String result = str.replaceAll("[^\\dA-Za-z ]", "").replaceAll("\\s+", "+");

For this input string:

/-+!@#$%^&())";:[]{}\ |wetyk 678dfgh

It yielded this result:

+wetyk+678dfgh