Java Program To Replace A Character In A String

Chapter: String Handling Last Updated: 03-06-2023 12:56:05 UTC

Program:

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public class CharacterReplacer {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String originalString = "Hello, World!";
        char charToReplace = 'o';
        char replacementChar = 'X';

        String replacedString = replaceChar(originalString, charToReplace, replacementChar);
        System.out.println("Replaced string: " + replacedString);
    }

    public static String replaceChar(String originalString, char charToReplace, char replacementChar) {
        char[] charArray = originalString.toCharArray();

        for (int i = 0; i < charArray.length; i++) {
            if (charArray[i] == charToReplace) {
                charArray[i] = replacementChar;
            }
        }

        return new String(charArray);
    }
}

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Output

Replaced string: HellX, WXrld!


In this output, all occurrences of the character 'o' in the original string "Hello, World!" have been 
replaced with 'X'.

Notes:

• The program defines a replaceChar method that takes three arguments: the original string, the character to be replaced, and the replacement character. It converts the original string to a character array using toCharArray().
• The method iterates over each character in the character array using a for loop. If a character matches the one to be replaced, it replaces it with the replacement character by assigning the value to the corresponding index in the array.
• Finally, the modified character array is converted back to a string using the String(char[]) constructor and returned as the replaced string. In the main method, a sample input is provided where all occurrences of the character 'o' in the string "Hello, World!" are replaced with 'X'. The resulting replaced string is then printed to the console.

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Java program to replace a character in a string #How do you replace a character with a string in Java? #Java String replace() method

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