how to escape special characters dot and double quotes in java?

Question

Columnname : Meta Data["1. Information"]

String column = columnname.replaceAll(".","\\.").replaceAll("\"", "\\\\\"");

I am trying to escape both double quotes and dot character,How can i do this?

Answer 1

You can combine (\\\") and (\\.) with | (OR) operator.

Try this:

String column = columnname.replaceAll("(\\\")|(\\.)", "");