Java replaceAll with newline symbol

Question

the newline symbol \n is causing me a bit of trouble when i try to detect and replace it: This works fine:

String x = "Bob was a bob \\n";
String y = x.replaceAll("was", "bob");
System.out.println(y);

butt this code does not give the desired result

String x = "Bob was a bob \\n";
String y = x.replaceAll("\n", "bob");
System.out.println(y);

Answer 1

"Bob was a bob \\n" becomes literally Bob was a bob \n

There is no newline to replace in the input string. Are you trying to replace a newline character or the escape sequence \\n?