替换字符串中的特殊字符

Question

I have to replace a string whit special character like this: XY_Universit -WWWWW-ZZZZZ in another one like: XY_Universita-WWWWW-ZZZZZ .

I tried solutions like stringToReplace.replaceAll(".*Universit.*", "Universita"); but it replace all the string with the word ''Universita" and it isn't what i want.

Answer 1

stringToReplace.replaceAll("Universit[^a]", "Universita")

Answer 2

public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
        String exp = "XY_Universit�-WWWWW-ZZZZZ";
        exp = exp.replaceAll("[^\\w\\s\\-_]", "");
        System.out.println(exp);
    }

output

XY_Universit-WWWWW-ZZZZZ

Answer 3

You have to be lazy :P

use : .*?XY_Universit. to select only the first XY_universit

demo here

Answer 4

Another odd way..

String example = "XY_Universit�-WWWWW-ZZZZZ";
char ch = 65533; //find ascii of special char
System.out.println(example.replace(ch, 'a'));