How to replace brackets in strings

Question

I have a list of strings that contains tokens.
Token is:

{ARG:token_name}.

I also have hash map of tokens, where key is th

Answer 1

String.replaceAll() works on regexps. {n,m} is usually repetition in regexps.

Try to use \\{ and \\} if you want to match literal brackets.

So replacing all opening brackets by X works that way:

myString.replaceAll("\\{", "X");

See here to read about regular expressions (regexps) and why { and } are special characters that have to be escaped when using regexps.