Not able to replace all for dollar sign

Question

can anyone advise why i encountered index out of bouns exception when running this method to replace the value by $ sign?

E.g. i pass in a message $$vmdomodm$$

message = message.replaceAll("$", "$");

I tried to look at this forum thread but couldnt understand the content

http://www.coderanch.com/t/383666/java/java/String-replaceAll

Answer 1

It is special character you need to use escape character

Try with this \\$

and it doesn't make sense in your code you are trying to replacing the content with same

String message = "$$hello world $$";
message = message.replaceAll("\\$", "_");
System.out.println(message);

output

__hello world __

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Update

   String message = "$hello world $$";
   message = message.replaceAll("$", "\\$");
   System.out.println(message);

output

 $hello world $$