Replacement Methods of Matcher Class

In this lesson, you will learn how to perform the String replacement methods of the Matcher class and capture groups in the regular expressions.

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The Matcher class

The Matcher class also defines methods for replacing matched strings with a new replacement string.

Replacement methods

To replacing text in an input string, we use replacement methods.

Matcher appendReplacement(StringBuffer sb, String replacement) - Implements a non-terminal append-and-replace step.

Below is a code example demonstrating the use of the appendReplacement() method:

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