The Java Developers Almanac 1.4


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e76. Replacing Substrings in a String

See also e429 Quintessential Regular Expression Search and Replace Program.
    static String replace(String str, String pattern, String replace) {
        int s = 0;
        int e = 0;
        StringBuffer result = new StringBuffer();
    
        while ((e = str.indexOf(pattern, s)) >= 0) {
            result.append(str.substring(s, e));
            result.append(replace);
            s = e+pattern.length();
        }
        result.append(str.substring(s));
        return result.toString();
    }

 Related Examples
e70. Constructing a String
e71. Comparing Strings
e72. Determining If a String Contains a Substring
e73. Getting a Substring from a String
e74. Searching a String for a Character or a Substring
e75. Replacing Characters in a String
e77. Converting a String to Upper or Lower Case
e78. Converting a Primitive Type Value to a String
e79. Converting Between Unicode and UTF-8
e80. Determining a Character's Unicode Block
e81. Determining If a String Is a Legal Java Identifier

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