From 93bd0568e6d9266f4e03f7dd314d3f488eed43cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter De Maeyer <peter.de.maeyer@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2026 14:30:33 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] IO-886 Replaced incorrect regular expression replaceAll with
 plain replace

---
 src/main/java/org/apache/commons/io/file/PathUtils.java | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/io/file/PathUtils.java b/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/io/file/PathUtils.java
index 6a9718c4c07..92672c10f91 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/io/file/PathUtils.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/io/file/PathUtils.java
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ private static boolean equalsIgnoreFileSystem(final Path path1, final Path path2
 
         static String extractKey(final String separator, final String string) {
             // Replace the file separator in a path string with a string that is not legal in a path on Windows, Linux, and macOS.
-            return string.replaceAll("\\" + separator, ">");
+            return string.replace(separator, ">");
         }
 
         final boolean equals;