How can I use Split method to find special characters and replace with images in android

Question

I want to use split method to find special characters and then remove them and replace with images. I used html formatted texts in CDATA tag in Strings.xml file and send it to a Textview . How can I determine that special characters in that text (html formatted) in my java code and replace images and show those images between texts. Thanks.

I want to determine where to add images in the texts so I thought to use special characters like ( and ) to find the location of where I want to show an image — Android_Dev, Oct 25 '16 at 11:31
This is what you are looking for http://stackoverflow.com/a/21250752/4288782 — natario, Oct 25 '16 at 11:40

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 25 '16 at 11:36

The simplest way would be to search within the String using the indexOf method. Something like this:

String yourString = "lorem(ipsum)";
String [] charsToReplace = new Array ('(', ')');

for (String thisChar : charsToReplace) {
    while (yourString.indexOf(thisChar) > -1) {
        // do something with ImageSpan or something
    }
}

Not sure if this is the best way though...

How can I use Split method to find special characters and replace with images in android

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