Check Jef Poskanzer's Acme classes:
http://www.acme.com
He include a Utils class with some string stuff. There's also a very
nice Perl (or other) style regexp package at
http://www.cacas.org/java/gnu/regexp/
There are lots of other Java utility packages wandering around on the
web, as well.
As for a general replace method, here's one:
/**
* Replace all occurences of a string with another string.
*/
public static String replace(
String inputString,
String findString,
String replaceWithString
) {
StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
int index = -1;
int start = 0;
int findLength = findString.length();
// Loop over occurrences of string to replace.
while ((index = inputString.indexOf(findString, start)) != -1) {
sb.append(inputString.substring(start, index));
sb.append(replaceWithString);
start = index + findLength;
}
// Add the rest.
sb.append(inputString.substring(start));
return sb.toString();
}
In general, though, if you find you're using such methods a *lot* you
might want to look into representing things as classes instead of as
structured strings.
Rod McChesney, Korobra Corporation
Oliver Pistor wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> I'm just fighting with the incomplete String classes.
>
> I urgently need methods like split() [not only a split by a single character
> token, but a split with a string as token] or
> some decent replace() and all the "string-stuff" you need to build dynamic
> database queries, HTML pages etc.
>
> I was wondering if anyone had the same problems and has written some code or
> if there are
> any classes or something like a "Utility Servlet" (maybe we should do one?)
> available
>
> Oliver
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