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


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


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


This example returns:

HelloWorld

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All whitespace characters have been removed. 

\s is the regular expression equivalent for a whitespace.



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replaceAll(" He__o Wor_d ", "_", "l")


This example returns:

Hello World



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Parameters used in this function

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text

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Any given text.
regex

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A valid regular expression that grabs all substrings to be replaced.
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This text will replace all substrings found by the regex.



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This function returns a

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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 Wor_d"

If you don't want to use a regular expression, have a look at the findReplaceAll() function.



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Short description

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

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