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Utilities.replaceAll

Replaces all occurrences in a string of a specified substring with a new string.

Syntax

public static final String 
replaceAll(String source,
           String what,
           String with)

Parameters

source

The source string to be modified. NULL or empty returns the same string.

what

The substring to replace. To leave the source string unaltered, set what to null.

with

The replacement text. To erase the substring identified by what, set with to null.

Description

The replaceAll method replaces all occurrences in a string of a specified substring with a new string.

Returns

Returns the new string.

Example

The following code fragment replaces both occurrences of red with green:

clearResult();
String str = "This red looks really red.";
String repStr = Utilities.replaceAll(str, "red", "green");

The resulting value of repStr will be:

This green looks really green.

 

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