Error in regex to catch special characters

i wrote a regular expression to catch special characters in an input string but it catches the numbers as well. Here is the regex,

final String REGEX="[^.,%*$#@?^<!&>'|/\\\\~\\[\\]{}+-=\"]*";

I need to catch the above mentioned characters only. Please help me.

You created a range with the unescaped hyphen.

The misplaced hyphen makes the pattern match these characters:

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Escape the hyphen or place at the end of the class:

final String REGEX="[^.,%*$#@?^<!&>'|/\\\\~\\[\\]{}+=\"-]*";
                                                      ^

Here is this regex demo

Move the hyphen (-) to the end of your character class:

final String REGEX="[^.,%*$#@?^<!&>'|/\\\\~\\[\\]{}+=\"-]*"

Where it's currently positioned (+-=), it expresses a range from + to =. This range includes, a.o. all digits.

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