Reputation: 13415
I have such replacement statement
output.replaceAll(REGEX_BRACKETS, "<$2$3>");
How to apply escaping via (StringEscapeUtils
for example) for $2
and $3
?
Upvotes: 2
Views: 39
Reputation: 627607
Here is an example of how this can be done inside Matcher
:
String s = "word 123 some text inside next 567";
StringBuffer result = new StringBuffer();
Matcher m = Pattern.compile("(\\w+)\\s+(\\d+)").matcher(s);
while (m.find()) {
String wrd = m.group(1);
String num = m.group(2);
String replacement = wrd.toUpperCase() + num;
m.appendReplacement(result, replacement);
}
m.appendTail(result);
System.out.println(result.toString());
See IDEONE demo
Just use your own functions, I am using toUpperCase()
just for demo.
Upvotes: 1