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Does Java have a built-in way to escape arbitrary text so that it can be included in a regular expression? For example, if my users enter "$5", I'd like to match that exactly rather than a "5" after the end of input.

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You can try this for the Java 1.5, and above:

Pattern.quote("$5");

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