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yeah i started with the use of negations in my reg ex but coud nt really achieve wat i needed, will go thru the link u provided and get back if reqd.

thanks

hi i am slightly new to java patterns so can you please explain what would be achieved with the pattern you sugested &[^;]{2,6}[^;]

All i undertsnd is that it will find the & characters which are...

The code i have used is as below

/*
* Created on 10/11/2008
*
*/

import java.io.*;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;

sorry the pattern i used for matching the escape sequences is &[\\w]+;

hi,

I want to find the unscaped characters in some XML input in order to replace them with their escape sequences through my code.

For instance, my XML input would consist unescaped and escaped...