How do I replace multiple items in a list?

Question

I have added several characters in a list to replace in a string. Here they are:

List<Character> list = new ArrayList<Character>();
list.add(',');
list.add('?');
list.add(',');
list.add(':');
list.add('-');
list.add('(');
list.add(')');
list.add(';');
list.add('/');

I want to replace all occurrences of the character in the list in a string "s".

s.replaceAll(list, "");

I can't do that, of course, because list is NOT a string. But what can I do instead?

EDIT so if

String s = "I am cool; not good!";

I want the list to recognize that it contains ";" and "!", and replace those characters in the String s with nothing. So the result would be:

"I am cool not good"

Answer 1

Rather than use a List<Character>, I would use a regex:

s.replaceAll("[,?:();/-]","");

If you absolutely must define your characters in a List, convert the List to such a regex first.