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How do I replace characters in a String?
It does work! Most likely, you have forgotten one important property of a String object: it's immutable. Once it's created, a String can't change. replace takes two characters as arguments and replaces all occurrences of the first char into the second. Internally, it creates a new String object which the method uses to do its modifications. It returns this new string object. So: not

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