Regex accent java

Question

how do I replace an accent by something else in a string?

I have this :

if (personne1.trim().contains("Président"))

I have to replace the é by anything (this could be e)

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3322152/is-there-a-way-to-get-rid-of-accents-and-convert-a-whole-string-to-regular-lette — Reimeus, Aug 03 '18 at 10:12
See https://stackoverflow.com/a/3322174 ( map characters with diacritics to their bases ) — collapsar, Aug 03 '18 at 10:14
@jhamon: Your linked question isn't actually related exactly to what the OP needs. — Nikolas Charalambidis, Aug 03 '18 at 10:16
I don't want this to be a replacemet, I want my word could be "Président" of "President" (if the accent is forgotten) — Morgan Tartreau, Aug 03 '18 at 12:21

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 03 '18 at 10:13

This is an example of XY problem. You don't want to replace only é to e but also other literals with diacritics. You want to "normalize" the String. Use the java.text.Normalizer class:

String compared = Normalizer
    .normalize("Président", Normalizer.Form.NFD)
    .replaceAll("[^\\p{ASCII}]", "")

if(personne1.trim().contains(compared)) {
    ...
}

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 03 '18 at 10:14

0

String Class has method called replace().

if(personne1.trim().contains("Président")){
   personne1.replace("é", e)
}

answered Aug 03 '18 at 10:14

Naveen Heroorkar

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