#How can I get java to ignore special characters when comparing strings?

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bleak otterBOT
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<@&987246399047479336> please have a look, thanks.

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time.

One way to ignore special characters when comparing strings in Java is to remove them before comparing the strings. You can use regular expressions to remove all non-alphanumeric characters from the strings before comparing them. Here is an example code snippet:

public static boolean compareStringsIgnoringSpecialCharacters(String str1, String str2) {
    // Remove all non-alphanumeric characters from the strings
    String cleanStr1 = str1.replaceAll("[^a-zA-Z0-9]", "");
    String cleanStr2 = str2.replaceAll("[^a-zA-Z0-9]", "");

    // Compare the cleaned strings
    return cleanStr1.equalsIgnoreCase(cleanStr2);
}

public static void main(String[] args) {
    String str1 = "Hello, World!";
    String str2 = "Hello World";

    if (compareStringsIgnoringSpecialCharacters(str1, str2)) {
        System.out.println("The strings are equal ignoring special characters.");
    } else {
        System.out.println("The strings are not equal ignoring special characters.");
    }
}

In this code snippet, the compareStringsIgnoringSpecialCharacters method removes all non-alphanumeric characters from the input strings using the replaceAll method with a regular expression pattern [^a-zA-Z0-9]. The cleaned strings are then compared using the equalsIgnoreCase method to ignore case differences.

You can adjust the regular expression pattern [^a-zA-Z0-9] to include or exclude specific special characters based on your requirements.

left turret
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I don't feel like removing the character is the right thing to do, because then the case "Pérez" gets read as "Prez" and would be incorrectly sorted regardless

vagrant apex
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lofty sphinx
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You could compile a map of the latin alphabet that translates all accented characters to their base form

vagrant apex
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Either treat them as is, or swap them with the base version.