Question

I am trying to replace a character in a string with multiple occurences in Javascript.

String a1 = "There is a man over there";

when i use replace("e","x");

it will replace only the first occurrence of e.

So i am trying to use the g modifier like this replace(/e/g,"x");

But i am facing with this error Syntax error on tokens, Expression expected instead

I am not sure what i am doing wrong here.

Answer 1

replace(/e/g,"x") would be valid in JavaScript but not in Java. For Java just use the following:

String a1 = "There is a man over there";
String replaced = a1.replaceAll("e", "x"); // "Thxrx is a man ovxr thxrx"