Regex help, replacing/espacing characters

[Sean Chang]

Hey all,

I needed a little help writing a function in java that does the follow for escaping, I want to use regular expressions, I need the following characters to be replaced by a “~”

I posted it in beginners, but i think it is more fitting in this area.


The special characters are replaced as follows:

1. Newline, backspace, Control-M, carriage return, vertical tab characters are each replaced with "~"

2. Double quotes (") are replaced with single quotes (')

3. Then single quotes are escaped by inserting a backslash before each one.

Can someone give me a hand writing this? I don’t know regular expressions so it’s difficult for me to get going on this.

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