*. become (.+?)\\. and *. become \1

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[leonardootto]

*. become (.+?)\\.
and
*. become \1

[groostav]

and ( becomes \( and { becomes \{ and on and on and on

[groostav]

and java doesnt even have a facility for this automatically, meaning I'd have to write it and writing a complete regex escaper might well be beyond my skill to write without bugs

[groostav]

also the default wrapping scheme in java is to surround things with a \Qtextextext\E, which might suffice for some situations but not mine, meaning I'd have to mangle the string into multiple sections surrounding them with \Q and \E if i wanted to use this strategy