regex syntax javafx

Question

A silly question, I am not sure what is wrong in the following javafx regex syntax. Netbeans complains illegal escape character in whole of this regex string,

var pattern:String = "(\/S*)(ftp|http|https):\/\/(\w+:\{0,1\}\w*@)?(\S+)(:[0-9]+)?(\/|\/([\w#!:.?+=&%@!\-\/]))?";

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks a bunch.

Cheers, Abi

Answer 1

Try this double \\ for \

var pattern:String = "(\\/S*)(ftp|http|https):\\/\\/(\\w+:\{0,1\}\\w*@)?(\\S+)(:[0-9]+)?(\\/|\\/([\\w#!:.?+=&%@!\-\\/]))?";