List of all special characters that need to be escaped in a regex

You can look at the javadoc of the Pattern class: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/regex/Pattern.html

You need to escape any char listed there if you want the regular char and not the special meaning.

As a maybe simpler solution, you can put the template between \Q and \E – everything between them is considered as escaped

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