title: Invalid Escape sequence java
body: <p>I am trying do that but it keeps give me error invalid escape format. I was trying to remove some backslash but didn't work</p>
  
  <pre><code>private string chars = "(lP+" (\\w+)/\\d{3} \\d+ \\w+ \\S+\\s?\"?($|-|[\\w\\\\\.@]+)\"?")";
  </code></pre>