Tushar Raval :
I have a sentence, which has names of an authors separated by the word "and". I want to remove the "and" and put a & instead. Is there a quick and easy way to do this. I've tried scanner and useDelimiter(), StringTokenizer, and split.
This is for example what I want to split (I am getting this information from a file on my computer):
author={J. Park and J. N. James and Q. Li and Y. Xu and W. Huang},
So I used:
String author = nextLine.substring(nextLine.indexOf("{") + 1, nextLine.lastIndexOf("}"));
StringTokenizer st2 = new StringTokenizer(author, " and ");
while(st2.hasMoreTokens()){
author += st2.nextToken() + " & ";
}
The output that I get is the following:
J. Park and J. N. James and Q. Li and Y. Xu and W. HuangJ. & P & rk & J. & N. & J & mes & Q. & Li & Y. & Xu & W. & Hu & g & .
I am not entirely sure what I am doing wrong. I googled this for 2 hours last night before giving up. I have tried using "[and]", "and", "^[and]$", but with no success.
Joni :
Use the replaceAll method. For example:
String s = "J. Park and J. N. James and Q. Li and Y. Xu and W. Huang";
s = s.replaceAll("\\band\\b", "&"); // "J. Park & J. N. James & Q. Li & Y. Xu & W. Huang"
The \b word boundaries ensures that if there is a name that includes and (for example, "Band") it won't be touched.
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