title: Spring config string format
body: <p>A stupid question on formatting but not able to figure out the correct negate parameter. I've the following string value which needs to be passed as a constructor arg through spring.</p>
  
  <pre><code>private final static String STRING_PATTERN = "\\&lt;.*?&gt;";
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>In spring config,</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;bean class="com.test.TestBean"&gt;
  &lt;constructor-arg value="\\&lt;.*?&gt;" /&gt;
  &lt;/bean&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>As you can see, its not in the correct format. Can anyone please provide a clue ?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>