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To match a literal string, rather than a regular expression, either all special characters should be escaped or the ``++Pattern.LITERAL++`` flag or methods that don't use regular expressions should be used.


== Noncompliant Code Example

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Pattern.compile("([");
str.matches("([");
str.replaceAll("([", "{");
str.matches("(\\w+-(\\d+)");
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== Compliant Solution

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Pattern.compile("\\(\\[");
Pattern.compile("([", Pattern.LITERAL);
str.equals("([");
str.replace("([", "{");
str.matches("(\\w+)-(\\d+)");
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