regex remove everything between 2 strings

Question

I need a regex for my replaceAll that removes everything between 2 strings and the strings themselves.

For example if I had something like.

stackoverflow is really awesome/nremove123/n I love it

I was trying to do a replaceAll like this line.replaceAll("/n*/n", ""); This should result in

stackoverflow is really awesome I love it

I thought the asterisk meant anything but can't get it to work?

cheers

Answer 1

No, the . means any character. * means any number of the previous things. So anything is .* . What you need is

/n.*/n

If you want to leave an empty space between words use this instead

replaceAll("/n.*/n *", " ")

Answer 2

I think you need a dot:

replaceAll("/n.*/n")

Answer 3

This will remove anything between ab .

replaceAll("ab([;\s\w\"\=\,\:\./\~\{\}\?\!\-\%\&\#\$\^\(\)]*?)ab",""); 

Please add any special character, if I'm missing it.