Question

I have a string that contains many asterisk’ ‘*’. I want to be able to search through the entire string and swap the asterisks for another character or String.

SOLVED:
String name = getString(string[i]);
String newName;

            CharSequence orig = "****"; 
            CharSequence replaced = "Frank";

            newName = name.replace(orig, replaced);

Answer 1

Use replace, or replaceAll. Link to relevant doc below:

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/api/java/lang/String.html#replace%28char,%20char%29

For your problem, the answer would be

getString = getString.replace('*', 'x');

‘x’ being the character to replace ‘*’ with.