Thread: String replacement

Every example I have found tells me the following should replace brackets with spaces

		String lineIn = "[10/Feb/2011 15:56:27 -0000]";
		lineIn.replace('[', ' ');
		lineIn.replace(']', ' ');
		System.out.println(lineIn);

Yet my output is this.
[10/Feb/2011 15:56:27 -0000]

Do I really have to build out a regular expression an pattern match these? (BTW I tried that unsuccessfully also).

I appreciate any help. It doesn't seem like this should be that hard.

Thanks,

CTP

In java, strings are immutable (i.e. can't be modified/changed). The replace() method for strings actually creates a new string with the characters replaced. Simply assign the result of replace() back into lineIn.

lineIn = lineIn.replace('[', ' ');
lineIn = lineIn.replace(']', ' ');

As a side note please use highlight tags around your code.