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Saurav Sahu
Saurav Sahu

Reputation: 13934

Replace dot in between slash i.e. '/./' with single slash '/'

For this string dirPath,

String dirPath = "c:/create/a/dir/very/deep/inside/../././../../../dir/";

I want the output string to look like :

"c:/create/a/dir/very/deep/inside/../../../../dir/";

I used :

dirPath.replaceAll("/[.]/", "/");

but that gave :

c:/create/a/dir/very/deep/inside/.././../../../dir/
                                   ^^^

then, tried with one more replaceAll as:

dirPath.replaceAll("/[.]/", "/").replaceAll("/[.]/", "/");

and that worked!

My question is why couldn't one call achieve the same result? How to achieve it in simplest way?

P.S. Another regex that didn't work for me : .replaceAll("($|/)[.]/", "$1")

Upvotes: 4

Views: 191

Answers (1)

blhsing
blhsing

Reputation: 106533

You can use a lookahead pattern to avoid consuming the slash needed by the subsequent match:

dirPath.replaceAll("/\\.(?=/)", "")

Demo: https://regex101.com/r/qWKVU3/1 or http://tpcg.io/ijmYJF

Upvotes: 5

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