String replacement

[Amirtharaj Chinnaraj]

hey guys

i want change the sting value test's to test\'s
stored in a string

this the code i tried but the result is not getting changed i want to know
why it is not changed and how i can change

String test="test's";
test= test.replace("'", "'/");
String test1 =test;

regards
amir

[Ronda Spring]

Strings are immutable - mostly for safety/security reasons that are beyond me. Once made their contents are not altered. The replace() method is returning the altered string, but it needs a new home.

String s = "test";
String x = s.replace("s", "x");
System.out.println(s);
System.out.println(x);

This turns test to text, but you won't see the result in s, only in x.

[Joanne Neal]

You say in your question that you want to chage test's to test\'s, but your code is trying to change it to test'/s

Assuming you wanted what you said in the question, you need to escape the '\', because '\' is a special character in Java Strings.
Try

String test = "test's";
test = test.replace("'", "\\'");

@Ronda - this will work because test is a String reference, so the second line actually just points it at the new String and the original String is no longer referenced and so is available for garbage collection.