Question

I was trying to write a regular expression for “[beginning word][specific word][ending word]” and making it case insensitive. But for some reason it doesn’t seem to work.

I’m doing it in java, hence the extra “\”.

For example, if I wanted to match the word “crazy” my regex would be:

/\\bcrazy\\b/i

My java code in which I call the regular expression where it doesn’t match anything is:

textToMakeHarder = textToMakeHarder.replaceAll("/\\bcrazy\\b/i", "super crazy");

Answer 1

Try this:

  String textToMakeHarder = "I am a crazy person and he is also a crazy person. Are you crazycrazy too?";
  Pattern re = Pattern.compile("\\bcrazy\\b",Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE);
  Matcher m = re.matcher(textToMakeHarder);
  textToMakeHarder = m.replaceAll("super crazy");

Result:

I am a super crazy person and he is also a super crazy person. Are you
crazycrazy too?