# Processing 3 Escaping Regex Characters

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**Category:** Coding Questions\
**Created:** [April 6, 2020, 7:25pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/processing-3-escaping-regex-characters/19477 "2020-04-06T19:25:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Conor98](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@Conor98](https://discourse.processing.org/u/Conor98)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2020, 2:22am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/processing-3-escaping-regex-characters/19477/3 "2020-04-11T02:22:00Z")

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Oh thank you very much. It appears that you need to use two backslashes to escape characters. I’ve been stuck on this for a while. I’m very grateful for your help.

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