using String.replaceAll or replaceFirst to replace a string with special characters or symbols

If you have a string for example like this
abcd?d*&!@#

With Java’s String.replaceAll or String.replaceFirst it will assume the string is in a regular expression format.

The way to avoid this to use is to use:
e.g.
import java.util.regex.Pattern;
sb.toString().replaceFirst(Pattern.quote(““), “”);