I have the following code in which I am going to mark the contents between the curly braces with SpannableString
and remove the curly braces but it gives wrong result.
String text = "the {quic}k brown {fox} jumps {over} the lazy dog. {A Quick} {brow}nfoxjumpsoverthelazydog";
tv.setText(makeSpannable(text, "\\{.*?\\}"));
public SpannableStringBuilder makeSpannable(String text, String regex) {
SpannableStringBuilder spannable = new SpannableStringBuilder(text);
Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile(regex);
Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(spannable.toString());
while (matcher.find()) {
String word = matcher.group();
String abbr = word.toString().substring(1, word.length() - 1);
spannable.setSpan(new ForegroundColorSpan(Color.RED), matcher.start(), matcher.end(), Spanned.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
spannable.replace(matcher.start(), matcher.start() + abbr.length() , abbr);
}
return spannable;
}
Input:
the {quic}k brown {fox} jumps {over} the lazy dog. {A Quick} {brow}nfoxjumpsoverthelazydog
Output:
String text = "the {quic}k brown {fox} jumps {over} the lazy dog. {A Quick} {brow}nfoxjumpsoverthelazydog";
tv.setText(makeSpannable(text, "\\{.*?\\}"));
public SpannableStringBuilder makeSpannable(String text, String regex) {
StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
SpannableStringBuilder spannable = new SpannableStringBuilder();
Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile(regex);
Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(text);
while (matcher.find()) {
sb.setLength(0); // clear
String group = matcher.group();
// caution, this code assumes your regex has single char delimiters
String spanText = group.substring(1, group.length() - 1);
matcher.appendReplacement(sb, spanText);
spannable.append(sb.toString());
int start = spannable.length() - spanText.length();
spannable.setSpan(new ForegroundColorSpan(Color.RED), start, spannable.length(), Spanned.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
}
sb.setLength(0);
matcher.appendTail(sb);
spannable.append(sb.toString());
return spannable;
}
If you're not against using html:
tv.setText(Html.fromHtml(makeStringBuffer(text, regex, Color.RED).toString()));
private StringBuffer makeColoredStringBuffer(String text, String regex, int color) {
// create a buffer to hold the replaced string
StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
// create the pattern matcher
Matcher m = Pattern.compile(regex).matcher(text);
// iterate through all matches
while (m.find()) {
// get the match
String word = m.group();
// remove the first and last characters of the match and surround with html font tag
String abbr = String.format("<font color='#%06X'>%s</font>", (0xFFFFFF & color), word.substring(1, word.length() - 1));
// appendReplacement handles replacing within the current match's bounds
m.appendReplacement(sb, abbr);
}
// add any text left over after the final match
m.appendTail(sb);
return sb;
}
If you want to use a SpannableString
:
tv.setText(makeColoredSpannable(text, regex, Color.RED));
private SpannableStringBuilder makeColoredSpannable(String text, String regex, int color) {
// create a spannable to hold the final result
SpannableStringBuilder spannable = new SpannableStringBuilder();
// create a buffer to hold the replaced string
StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
// create the pattern matcher
Matcher m = Pattern.compile(regex).matcher(text);
// iterate through all matches
while (m.find()) {
// get the match
String word = m.group();
// remove the first and last characters of the match
String abbr = word.substring(1, word.length() - 1);
// clear the string buffer
sb.setLength(0);
// appendReplacement handles replacing within the current match's bounds
m.appendReplacement(sb, abbr);
// append the new colored section to the spannable
spannable.append(sb);
spannable.setSpan(new ForegroundColorSpan(color), spannable.length() - abbr.length(), spannable.length(), Spanned.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
}
// clear the string buffer
sb.setLength(0);
// add any text left over after the final match
m.appendTail(sb);
spannable.append(sb);
return spannable;
}
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