help with String manipulation

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ambiguousprep@gmail.com - 16 Nov 2005 21:17 GMT

I need a method that replaces all of a given substring with another
given substring, but is NOT casesentive.

example: replace all "damn" with "****"

String.indexOf(str) is case sensitive, so im all out of ideas

any help will be appreciated

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"." - 16 Nov 2005 21:25 GMT

> I need a method that replaces all of a given substring with another
> given substring, but is NOT casesentive.
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> any help will be appreciated

Make a copies of the strings but all uppercase. Use the all uppercase
versions to find the indexOf but draw the substrings out of the original
mixed case strings.

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mrandywarner@gmail.com - 16 Nov 2005 21:41 GMT

You should be able to do something like:

Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("foo", Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE);
String result = pattern.matcher("a fOo named FoO").replaceAll("bar");

result should be "a bar named bar"

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Oliver Wong - 16 Nov 2005 21:33 GMT

> I need a method that replaces all of a given substring with another
> given substring, but is NOT casesentive.
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>
> any help will be appreciated

If you know how to use regular expressions (or don't mind learning how),
you can use the replaceAll(String regExp, String replacement) method.

- Oliver

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