Scripted Attribute / weird issue

[Brent Putman]

On 7/29/16 12:35 PM, Bryan Wooten wrote:
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>           element = ca[0].split("$");
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> So the split on ‘,’ on the courses string works, but the split on ‘$’
> on ca[0] doesn’t do anything.
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> If I change ‘$’ to ‘2’ it will split on the ‘2’.
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> Also note that a replace on ‘$’ doesn’t work either.
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> Any ideas? My google foo is totally failing….
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Well, the input to the Java String split() function is a regular
expression, and the '$' is a special character. [1]

So if you want to split on a literal '$', you have to escape it.   Try
split("\$").  (Or if that doesn't work try split("\\$").  In some cases
with string literals in Java you have to have 2 escape characters and I
can never remember when/why.  Don't know which case this is.)



[1]
https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/regex/Pattern.html#sum
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