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regex replace all ignore case

How do I get the required output?

input string –

"Software Industry. software Industry. SOFTWARE INDUSTRY. software industry. "

word to be searched –

"software industry"

Output –

"*Software Industry*. *software Industry*. *SOFTWARE INDUSTRY*. *software industry*. "

In short I have to find a phrase and replace the same phrase with starting and ending asterisk (*), IGNORING THE CASE ..

Answer 1

You can use replaceAll with (?i) which will do case-insensitive replace.

String str = "Software Industry. software Industry. SOFTWARE INDUSTRY. "+
                                                    "software industry. "
str = str.replaceAll("(?i)(software industry)", "\\*$1\\*");