New to Java

Hi folks,

I seem to be running into a little bit of trouble with the String.replaceAll() method.

I have a piece of code that does the following:

     System.out.println(outerLine.replaceAll("{procName}", procName));

outerLine is a String object that is the result of a BufferedReader.readLine() method. The code compiles okay, but when I execute the program, however, I run into an illegal repetition exception. This is the explicit error message:

Exception in thread "main" java.util.regex.PatternSyntaxException: Illegal repetition
{user}
        at java.util.regex.Pattern.error(Pattern.java:1472)
        at java.util.regex.Pattern.closure(Pattern.java:2473)
        at java.util.regex.Pattern.sequence(Pattern.java:1597)
        at java.util.regex.Pattern.expr(Pattern.java:1489)
        at java.util.regex.Pattern.compile(Pattern.java:1257)
        at java.util.regex.Pattern.<init>(Pattern.java:1013)
        at java.util.regex.Pattern.compile(Pattern.java:760)
        at java.lang.String.replaceAll(String.java:1706)
        at TestObject.<init>(TestObject.java:36)
        at TestObject.main(TestObject.java:57)

The line that is being processed at this point is:

     User {user} will the required to provide more details.  {user}, please ...

I would be grateful for any input into why the error occurs.

Thanks in advance.