How to remove > tag from string in java

Question

I have the following string. "Christmas is a very expensive> time of year for most> people so the <br/>Christmas> bazaar is an <b>opportunity</b> for parents to indulge their offspring and buy lots> of small items> as either presents or <b>stocking fillers</b> .|Trust me, it's not easy scooping up gift votives and <b>stocking stuffers</b>" .

Now I want to remove only ">" from the strings that ended with with words only not the html tags such as "<br/> or <b"

If I use String.replace("\\\\>","") then it remove all the > tag from the string.
How can achieve that ?

Answer 1

I have completed a nimble and efficient HTML parser available for download here:

http://developer.torello.directory/JavaHTML/index.html

Here is your question solved:

import Torello.HTML.*;
import Torello.Java.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.io.*;

public class ReplaceGreaterThan
{
    public static void main(String[] argv) throws IOException
    {
        String YOUR_STRING_VAR = "Christmas is a very expensive> time of year for most> people so the <br />Christmas> bazaar is an <b>opportunity</b> for parents to indulge their offspring and buy lots> of small items> as either presents or <b>stocking fillers</b> .|Trust me, it's not easy scooping up gift votives and <b>stocking stuffers</b>";
        Vector<HTMLNode> page = HTMLPage.getPageTokens(YOUR_STRING_VAR, false);
        HTMLNode n;
        for (int i=0; i < page.size(); i++)
            if ((n = page.elementAt(i)) instanceof TextNode)
                if (n.str.contains("<") || n.str.contains(">"))
                    page.setElementAt(new TextNode(n.str.replaceAll("(<|>)", "")), i);
        YOUR_STRING_VAR = HTMLNodeFunction.pageToString(page);
        System.out.println(YOUR_STRING_VAR);
    }
}

Here is the output:

Christmas is a very expensive time of year for most people so the Christmas bazaar is an for parents to indulge their offspring and buy lots of small items as either presents or .|Trust me, it's not easy scooping up gift votives and |。相信我，这是不容易挖出礼物votives和

Answer 2

Check if the following code suit your need:

    String[] split = "This is test string> <br></br>".split(">");

    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
    for (String it : split) {
        if(it.contains("<")) {
            it += ">";
        }

        sb.append(it);
    }

    String result = sb.toString();

Answer 3

You can use String.replace("string>", "string") to achieve the result. If this doesn't solve your problem please give more details.

Answer 4

If you only need to remove the first occurrence of ">" , use replacefirst(regex,"new-value");

System.out.println("This istest string> <br></br>".replaceFirst(">",""));

Output:

This istest string <br></br>

EDIT: Per your comment,"but i need to replace all of the ">" that ended with word from the string".

Use " positive lookbehind "

(?<=String)> (positive lookbehind) matches the > (and only the >) in string> , but does not match somethingelse>.

System.out.println("This istest string> <br></br>".replaceFirst("(?<=string)>",""));