Java Regex String Replace replace(String line, String regexp, String replacement)

Description

replace

License

Apache License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
line	The line of text where we want to apply the replacement
regexp	The regular expression that indicates which are the parts of the line to be replaced
replacement	The string that will replace the new content that will appear instead of the content matched by the regexp

Declaration

public static String replace(String line, String regexp, String replacement) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
//License from project: Apache License 

import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;

public class Main {
    /**/*from w  ww  .ja  va2 s  .c  o m*/
     * 
     * @param line
     *            The line of text where we want to apply the replacement
     * @param regexp
     *            The regular expression that indicates which are the parts of
     *            the line to be replaced
     * @param replacement
     *            The string that will replace the new content that will appear
     *            instead of the content matched by the regexp
     * @return
     */

    public static String replace(String line, String regexp, String replacement) {

        Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile(regexp);
        Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(line);

        while (matcher.find()) {
            // System.out.println("------> " + matcher.group());
            line = line.replace(matcher.group(), replacement);
        }

        return line;
    }
}

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