Pattern.Quote(String) Method

Definition

Returns a literal pattern String for the specified String.

[Android.Runtime.Register("quote", "(Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/String;", "")]
public static string Quote (string s);
[<Android.Runtime.Register("quote", "(Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/String;", "")>]
static member Quote : string -> string

Parameters

s
String

The string to be literalized

Returns

A literal string replacement

Attributes

Remarks

Returns a literal pattern String for the specified String.

This method produces a String that can be used to create a Pattern that would match the string s as if it were a literal pattern.

Metacharacters or escape sequences in the input sequence will be given no special meaning.

Added in 1.5.

Java documentation for java.util.regex.Pattern.quote(java.lang.String).

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Applies to