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javaregexstringreplace
user1851014
user1851014

Reputation: 11

Replace a character string with a space

I have a problem with characters String which i want to replace all with spaces.

I have a paragraph which contains some Strings like that {〭}

So I want to replace them with spaces.

I used this function: 

{text=text.replaceAll("&#[1-9];", "");}

but it doesn't work

Upvotes: 1

Views: 8339

Answers (2)

Ωmega
Ωmega

Reputation: 43673

I suggest to use

text = text.replaceAll("&#\\d+;", " ");

however in case &#... sequences are automatically converted into characters, use

text = text.replaceAll("[^\\x20-\\x7F]", " ");

Upvotes: 0

NPE
NPE

Reputation: 500257

Your regex looks for exactly one digit. Change it to:

"&#[1-9]+;"

(note the added +).

Also, the [1-9] is probably incorrect, and should be [0-9] (or indeed [0-9A-Fa-f] if the digits are hex).

Upvotes: 1

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