Redundant escape in regex replacement string

Reports redundant escapes in the replacement string of regex methods. It is allowed to escape any character in a regex replacement string, but only for the $ and \ characters is escaping necessary.

Example:

string.replaceAll("a", "\\b");

After the quick-fix is applied:

string.replaceAll("a", "b");

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RedundantEscapeInRegexReplacement

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New in 2022.3

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection RedundantEscapeInRegexReplacement

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2

Inspection Details
By default bundled with:	IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2, Qodana for JVM 2025.2,

Last modified: 18 September 2025