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replacing string in java

 
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String str8 = "Hello, John How are you? {{file:350}} with my name";


My requirement is that I want to replace {{file:350}} with some string. number 350 can change. How will i do this? Is their any approach? I was trying to do in this way but it give me exceptions as java.util.regex.PatternSyntaxException: Illegal repetition...

String stro = str8.replaceAll("{*.?}", "00000");
System.out.println("Stro:"+stro);

Does anybody know other way...to do this

 
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I was trying to do in this way but it give me exceptions as java.util.regex.PatternSyntaxException: Illegal repetition...



This is because the curly braces have special meaning in a regex -- it is used to specify the repetition. If you mean to match a curly brace, you need to escape it.

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try this:

String stro = str8.replaceAll("\\{.*\\}", "00000");

{ & } - are special characters.So you have to use \\ like \\{
 
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And you probably want to use ".*?" instead of ".*" in case there can be more than one replacement section in a string.
 
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Thanks Henry, anathi and Ulf for the kind response.

but before replacing {{file:350}} I need to take out file:350 then need to replace it.




It thwos me exception java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException: No group 1. It means
regular expression does work in this kind of secnario any other alaeranatives...
Thanks in advance
 
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The regexp doesn't use groups, so "matcher.groups(0)" is all you can use; it returns the complete matched substring.
 
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String str8 = "Hello, John {{file:350}} how are you?";

Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("\\{.*?\\}");
Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(str8);

while(matcher.find()) {
System.out.println(matcher.group(0));
}


This returns {{file:350} I just want file:350
 
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If you are going to use groups -- then use them. You need to add groups to the regex before you can call group(1) -- just make sure you configure group one to be the part of the regex that you want.

Since, regex is something that you really should learn -- I'll let you attempt it yourself ... see java.util.regex.Pattern for details.

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Hi Henry,

I will learn it ...Thanks...
 
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