groovy: how to replaceAll ')' with ' '

Question

i tried this:

def str1="good stuff 1)"
def str2 = str1.replaceAll('\)',' ')

but i got this:

Exception org.codehaus.groovy.control.MultipleCompilationErrorsException: startup failed, Script11.groovy: 3: unexpected char: '\' @ line 3, column 29. 1 error at org.codehaus.groovy.control.ErrorCollector(failIfErrors:296)

question: how to do this:

str1.replaceAll(')',' ')

Answer 1

Same as in Java:

def str2 = str1.replaceAll('\\)',' ')

You have to escape the backslash (with another backslash).

Answer 2

You have to escape the \ inside the replaceAll

def str2 = str1.replaceAll('\\)',' ')

Answer 3

A more Groovy way: def str2 = str1.replaceAll(/\)/,' ')

Answer 4

Many thanks to all answers which help me a lot as new learner of Groovy and Java!

Could you kindly tell me if we can use replaceAll() to replace more than one thing in one call. Like if I want to replace "(", "<","#" with "one", "two", "three"?

thank you again!