how to replace string between two strings in java by reading a text file

Question

package StringReplace.StringReplace;import java.io.*;import java.lang.*;public class stringreplace {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {

    File src = new File("input.txt");
    BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(src));

    String st;
    while ((st = br.readLine()) != null)
        System.out.println(st);
    st = st.replaceAll("[^,]*,\\*{5}", "X,*****");
    System.out.println(st);

}}

I want to read a text file which contains websites. So, now I want to replace the string after http:// to /here

http://hello.com/nnn hello.com should be replaced with localhost.com

Could you show us a sample of the file content you want to parse and process? — deHaar, Oct 04 '19 at 10:04
Take a look at the methods that `String` offers. Take a look at `indexOf` and `substring`. Or `replaceAll` if you are familiar with regex. — f1sh, Oct 04 '19 at 10:04
Possible duplicate of [replace String with another in java](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5216272/replace-string-with-another-in-java) — fantaghirocco, Oct 04 '19 at 10:17
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40955324/replace-string-between-2-strings-in-java — fantaghirocco, Oct 04 '19 at 10:19

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 04 '19 at 10:36

Your task involves several steps, while the last one is not clearly explained:

Do you want to change the host in the URIs inside the file or do you just want to read the file content and manipulate them in the RAM only in order to use them for anything else?

However, this example takes a path to a file containing website URIs, goes through each line (assuming the file is formatted as one URI per line) by streaming them, creates a URI object from each one and a new URI instance using the scheme of the original but puts the specified different host:

public static void main(String[] args) {
    // define the file location
    String pathToFile = "C:\\temp\\websites.txt";
    // make it a java.nio.file.Path
    Path filePath = Paths.get(pathToFile);
    // define the new host for all the URIs
    String exchangeHost = "localhost.com";

    try {
        // stream the lines
        Files.lines(filePath)
                .forEach(line -> {
                    try {
                        // create a URI from the original
                        URI originalUri = new URI(line);
                        // and a new one using scheme of the original, but put the new host
                        URI updatedUri = new URI(originalUri.getScheme(), exchangeHost, 
                                originalUri.getPath(), originalUri.getFragment());
                        // print this change to the console
                        System.out.println(originalUri.toString()
                                            + "  ————>  "
                                            + updatedUri.toString());
                    } catch (URISyntaxException e) {
                        e.printStackTrace();
                    }
                });
    } catch (IOException e) {
        // handle IOException
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

The file content in my try-out file is this:

http://www.somewhere.com/hello
http://somewhere.de/hallo
https://www.somewhere.co.uk/hello
https://somewhere.ru/privet
http://www.somewhere.es/hola

and the output of the program is the following:

http://www.somewhere.com/hello  ————>  http://localhost.com/hello
http://somewhere.de/hallo  ————>  http://localhost.com/hallo
https://www.somewhere.co.uk/hello  ————>  https://localhost.com/hello
https://somewhere.ru/privet  ————>  https://localhost.com/privet
http://www.somewhere.es/hola  ————>  http://localhost.com/hola

how to replace string between two strings in java by reading a text file

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