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Short description

Replaces all substrings matching a regular expression with a given replacement.

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This function replaces all substrings matching the given regular expression with a given replacement.


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replaceAll(text, regexp, replacement) #Output: Text


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replaceAll(" Hello World ", "\\s", "")


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Any given text.
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A valid regeular expression that grabs all substrings to be replaced.
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This text will replace all substrings found by the regexp.



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This expression could be used to e.g. modify an issue's summary or description.



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If you want to replace only the first matching occurrence, have a look at the replaceFirst() function.

replaceFirst("Hello World", "l", "_")replaceAll("Hello World", "l", "_")
"He_lo World""He__o World"
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If you don't want to use a regular expression, have a look at the findReplaceAll() function.