Thread: replacement substring

Hi there all, just trying to create a method to replace a old substring with a new one - i have denoted these by putting Source(source string), old(old substring string), new(new substring to replace old).

public static String[][] ftSwapSource =         
   { 
      {"ft old",       "File Transfered new" } 
 };

public static String replaceEach(String ftSwapSource, String oldString, String newString)

the oldString should be replaced by newString ("ft old" gets replaced by "File Transdered new").

Any ideas?

yeh using replaceAll() to replace the old version with the new version from the source string.

lol - no I'm still asking.

This method needs to replace the old substring with the new one;

public static String replaceEach(String source, String oldString, String newString)
{
method to replace oldString with newString from the source String
}

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public static String[][] source =
{
 
{"ft old", "File Transfered new" }
 
};

still can't seem to get the method to work - can you see anything wrong?

  public static replace String replaceEach(sourceString, oldString, newString)
  {
      Stringbuilder sourceString = new StringBuilder("result");
      for (int i = 1; i <= 100, i ++)
      {
         sourceString.replaceAll(oldString, newString);
      }
      return String result;
   }

Strings are immutable and cannot be modified once instantiated, which is why the replaceAll() function returns the resulting string. So you need to get the resulting string from calling the replaceAll function before continuing the loop