String.replaceAll() with regex?

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wEEdpEckEr - 25 May 2004 16:17 GMT

Hi,

I have an xml file with a few attributes, e.g. <draw:image draw:style-
name="id4" ... >

Now, what I would like to do is replace all semi-colons with hyphens ("-").
For the tag-name itself this isn't really a problem, since I can check
wheater a "<" preceeds the tag, but for the attributes it is, since not all
attributes appear always, nor in the same order. I tried something like
this:
XML = XML.replaceAll("<[^>]*draw:style-name=\"","<[^>]*draw-style-name=
\"");

but in the result, the "[^>]*" string is being added, instead of the
preceeding text that was there before. Is there a way to make sure the rest
of the text stays in place?

TIA

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Nicholas Pappas - 27 May 2004 14:54 GMT

> Now, what I would like to do is replace all semi-colons with hyphens ("-").

    The String class has a replace function which should do what you want.

    String xmlString = "<draw:image draw ... >"
    String xmlCleaned;
    xmlCleaned = xmlString.replace(';', '-');

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wEEdpEckEr - 31 May 2004 09:16 GMT

> The String class has a replace function which should do what you
> want.
>
> String xmlString = "<draw:image draw ... >"
> String xmlCleaned;
> xmlCleaned = xmlString.replace(';', '-');

euh, yeah, well, that's a little too simple, you see. In between the tags
can be regular text, e.g.
"<text:p>Some text: and other text</text:p>"

and I don't want the text to be changed. That's why I have to check if
there are "<" and ">" before and after the colon (not semi-colon, sorry,
confusing names for none English speaking persons).

greetz
Tim

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String.replaceAll() with regex?

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