groovy: how to replaceAll ')' with ' '

Question

I tried this:

def str1="good stuff 1)" def str2 = str1.replaceAll('\)',' ') 

but i got the following error:

Exception org.codehaus.groovy.control.MultipleCompilationErrorsException: startup failed, Script11.groovy: 3: unexpected char: '\' @ line 3, column 29. 1 error at org.codehaus.groovy.control.ErrorCollector(failIfErrors:296)

so the question is how do I do this:

str1.replaceAll('\)',' ') 

Answer 1

Same as in Java:

def str2 = str1.replaceAll('\\)',' ') 

You have to escape the backslash (with another backslash).

Answer 2

A more Groovy way: def str2 = str1.replaceAll(/\)/,' ')