Hi, I've got a problem with a string For example if I have a string s1 = "There w@s a b1g monster!!"; I want to remove everything, and end up with the following string: s2 = "There ws a bg monster" So I want to remove all the punctuation and numbers I think I could do the following, but I dont want to repeat this for every punctuation character that I want removed from the string. s2 = s1.replaceAll("!", ""); Is there an easy way?? ... thanks for your time!
eammon bannon
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Have a look at java.lang.regex - presuming you are using a JDK after 1.4. Your sort of problem is what this package was designed for.
Chris Parkinson
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Yeah thanks, java.util.regex looks very useful, but I'm finding it difficult to understand. If I use the regular expression syntax \w it matches a word character: [a-zA-Z_0-9] How do I search my string for these word characters only using regex, and then put this in a new string?
Dirk Schreckmann
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You might find it a bit easier to iterate through the characters in the String (with a for-loop), and make use of a method or two in the Character class. As different characters pass the test, you could just append them to a new String (or StringBuffer).
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