Replace all occurances of the target text with the provided replacement text : Matcher « Regular Expressions « Java

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Java » Regular Expressions » MatcherScreenshots 
Replace all occurances of the target text with the provided replacement text
 
import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;

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public class Utils {

  /**
   * Replace all occurances of the target text with the provided replacement
   * text. Both target and replacement may be regular expressions - see
   * <code>java.util.regex.Matcher</code>.
   
   @param text
   *          Text to modify
   @param targetText
   *          Text to find and replace
   @param newText
   *          New text
   @return Updated text
   */
  public static String replace(String text, String targetText, String newText) {

    Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile(targetText, Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE);
    Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(text);

    return matcher.replaceAll(newText);
  }
}

   
  
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