Replace all occurrences of a String using StringBuilder?

Well, you can write a loop:

public static void replaceAll(StringBuilder builder, String from, String to) {
    int index = builder.indexOf(from);
    while (index != -1) {
        builder.replace(index, index + from.length(), to);
        index += to.length(); // Move to the end of the replacement
        index = builder.indexOf(from, index);
    }
}

Note that in some cases it may be faster to use lastIndexOf, working from the back. I suspect that's the case if you're replacing a long string with a short one - so when you get to the start, any replacements have less to copy. Anyway, this should give you a starting point.


You could use Pattern/Matcher. From the Matcher javadocs:

 Pattern p = Pattern.compile("cat");
 Matcher m = p.matcher("one cat two cats in the yard");
 StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
 while (m.find()) {
     m.appendReplacement(sb, "dog");
 }
 m.appendTail(sb);
 System.out.println(sb.toString());

@Adam: I think in your code snippet you should track the start position for m.find() because string replacement may change the offset after the last character matched.

public static void replaceAll(StringBuilder sb, Pattern pattern, String replacement) {
    Matcher m = pattern.matcher(sb);
    int start = 0;
    while (m.find(start)) {
        sb.replace(m.start(), m.end(), replacement);
        start = m.start() + replacement.length();
    }
}