java.util.regex: Backreferences?

[dhek bhun kho]

Hi there,

I stumbled on this when I wanted to do a
java.lang.String.replaceAll(String, String) call. The second argument just
says 'replacement' in the API docs.

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/docs/api/java/lang/String.html#replaceAll(java.lang.String, java.lang.String)

The API doc is incomplete too! It's missing the description for the second
argument, but whatever the case I can't do something like this:

"hahahahahhaha".replaceAll("(a)(h)","\2\1");

E.g. I want to produce something I'd normally get like this:

$ echo "hahahaha" | sed "s/\(h\)\(a\)/\2\1/g"

The only way to solve it would imply some relatively lengthy coding with
the Pattern and Matcher classes.

I was wondering if I am overlooking something. Is there no facility to
easily perform regex substitutions using back references? If anybody can
be sure the answer is no: please post.


Greets
Bhun.

 

[Robert Olofsson]

dhek bhun kho ([email protected]) wrote:
: "hahahahahhaha".replaceAll("(a)(h)","\2\1");
: E.g. I want to produce something I'd normally get like this:
: $ echo "hahahaha" | sed "s/\(h\)\(a\)/\2\1/g"

String s = "hahahahahhaha".replaceAll("(a)(h)","$2$1");
System.out.println ("s: " + s);

=> s: hhahahahahhaa

If you read the documentation it say to check the replaceAll method
in Matcher....

/robo

 

[dhek bhun kho]

(e-mail address removed) (Robert Olofsson), Wed, 09 Jul 2003 10:45:53
+0000:

dhek bhun kho ([email protected]) wrote:
: "hahahahahhaha".replaceAll("(a)(h)","\2\1");
: E.g. I want to produce something I'd normally get like this:
: $ echo "hahahaha" | sed "s/\(h\)\(a\)/\2\1/g"

String s = "hahahahahhaha".replaceAll("(a)(h)","$2$1");
System.out.println ("s: " + s);

=> s: hhahahahahhaa

If you read the documentation it say to check the replaceAll method
in Matcher....

Thanks. I overlooked it. I don't understand why didn't put in the class
documentation of Pattern.