Question

I have a variable v that possibly appears more than one time consecutively in a string. I want to make it so that all consecutive vs turn into just one v. For example:

String s = "Hello, world!";
String v = "l";

The regex would turn “Hello, world!” into “Helo, world!”

So I want to do something like

s = s.replaceAll(vv+, v)

But obviously that won’t work. Thoughts?

Answer 1

You need to concatenate the two “v” Strings.

Try s = s.replaceAll(v + v + "+", v)