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How do I search and replace with regex?
Here's a simple example. When a match is found with matcher.find(), you can use the method appendReplacement to change the match by a replacement word. In essence, it will copy from the last append-position in the original string until the start of the match, append the replacement word and move the append-position to the end of match. You can do this in a loop until no more matches are found. Then, copy the last sequence of characters with appendTail.

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You can achieve the same result with the method replaceAll.

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Try this at command line:

 
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