How to remove special characters from a string in Java?

November 29, 2021

To remove special characters from a string in Java, use the replaceAll method with [^\\w\\s] regular expression pattern.

Here's how you do it:

String string = "Hello World 123!,.($#)&@";
String noSpecials = string.replaceAll("[^\\w\\s]", "");

System.out.println(noSpecials); // Hello World 123