Remove specific char from String

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How To remove a specific Character from a String. I have a Arraylist testingarray.

String line=testingarray.get(index).toString();

I want to remove a specific character from line.

I have Array of uniCodes

int uniCode[]={1611,1614,1615,1616,1617,1618};

i want to remove those characters that have these Unicodes.

Can you give an example what you mean by _remove a specific character_ — Amulya Khare, Dec 25 '13 at 06:52
For Example I want to remove 'd' from a string( this is a dog ). Result should be( this is a og ). — M.ArslanKhan, Dec 25 '13 at 06:55
possible duplicate of [how to remove special characters from an string?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7552253/how-to-remove-special-characters-from-an-string) — kapil thadani, Dec 25 '13 at 07:01

score 14 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:30

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use :

NewString = OldString.replaceAll("char", "");

in your Example in comment use:

NewString = OldString.replaceAll("d", "");

for removing Arabic character please see following link

how could i remove arabic punctuation form a String in java

removing characters of a specific unicode range from a string

edited May 23 '17 at 10:30

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answered Dec 25 '13 at 06:52

Shayan Pourvatan

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thanks . i did it but i did't get what i want. Basically i want i have 7 unicodes of Arabic characters , int uniCode[]={1611,1614,1615,1616,1617,1618}; i want to remove those words that have these unicodes – M.ArslanKhan Dec 25 '13 at 07:12
@ Shayan pourvatan thanks a lot . That is what i was searching i got my solution. – M.ArslanKhan Dec 25 '13 at 15:34

Visruth · Answer 2 · 2015-03-12T17:21:11.920

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you can replace character using replace method in string.

String line = "foo";
line = line.replace("f", "");
System.out.println(line);

output

oo

edited Mar 12 '15 at 17:21

answered Dec 25 '13 at 06:56

Visruth

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Cleanest solution for my application. – Whitebird Mar 09 '15 at 14:53

Suau · Answer 3 · 2013-12-25T07:42:45.763

If it's a single char, there is no need to use replaceAll, which uses a regular expression. Assuming "H is the character you want to replace":

String line=testingarray.get(index).toString();
String cleanLine = line.replace("H", "");

update (after edit): since you already have an int array of unicodes you want to remove (i'm assuming the Integers are decimal value of the unicodes):

String line=testingarray.get(index).toString();
int uniCodes[] = {1611,1614,1615,1616,1617,1618};
StringBuilder regexPattern = new StringBuilder("[");
for (int uniCode : uniCodes) {
    regexPattern.append((char) uniCode);
}
regexPattern.append("]");
String result = line.replaceAll(regexPattern.toString(), "");

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Dec 25 '13 at 06:52

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Try this,

String result = yourString.replaceAll("your_character","");

Example:

String line=testingarray.get(index).toString();
String result = line.replaceAll("[-+.^:,]","");

answered Dec 25 '13 at 06:52

No_Rulz

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replaceAll("[-+.^:,]","") - this is working as a regEx and if anything is present in line , it is replacing with blank( trimming it). – satender Jan 09 '18 at 15:02

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