Replacing Punctuation

**Sarah20** · 04-15-2006 12:57 PM

hi all,

Im trying to replace all mentions of .html in a html fine to .jsp. For example if i had:

<html>
<h1>
Some Text Here
</h1>
<a href ="page1.html"> Go to Page1
</html>

i would want to ONLY replace the .html in the link.

By using:

String replace= src.replaceAll(".html", ".jsp");

i succesfully replace the .html in the link but i also replace the html at the start and at the beginning despite them not having a "." in front of them? Any ideas on how to fix this PLEASE

**nspils** · 04-15-2006 01:44 PM

Look at the Pattern class, search to match the pattern.

Did you try to use an escape code before the period? ("\.html")

**graviton** · 04-18-2006 02:42 AM

it should be ("\\.html"), since \ has to be escaped within strings with \\. the dot is the regular expression for anycharacter.

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