Replacing multiple char from a string in java

Question

I have a PHP script <?=str_replace(array('(',')','-',' ','.'), "", $rs["hq_tel"])?> this is a string replace function that take array of chars and replace them if find any of the char in string. Is there any java equivalent of the function. I found some ways but some are using loop and some repeating the statements but not found any single line solution like this in java.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

your solution is here..

Replace all special character

str.replaceAll("[^\\dA-Za-z ]", "");

Replace specific special character

str.replaceAll("[()?:!.,;{}]+", " ");

Answer 2

You can use a regex like this:

//char1, char2 will be replaced by the replacement String. You can add more characters if you want!
String.replaceAll("[char1char2]", "replacement");

where the first parameter is the regex and the second parameter is the replacement.

Refer the docs on how to escape special characters(in case you need to!).