Question

My input string is:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><tag1><tag2></tag2></tag1>

I want to replace below part:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><tag1>

with spaces.

So I wrote:

String final = inputString.replaceFirst("<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?><tag1>", "");

However, its not working.

On printing final to the console, it is still same as inputString.

What is the issue ?

Answer 1

You don’t want to use a regex replacement. Just use the plain simple replace method and the code will work. The string literal you are using will be correct in that case.