I am trying to use the replaceAll() method, but I cannot get it to work.  
i'm trying to pass in a variable and I want it to replace everything that is 
in that variable?

firstLineString is of type string also.

editedFile.replaceAll(firstLineString, "Work you silly code");

Thanks,

Ben



Ben Coffman said:

 > I have a file I want to locate a word within the file and then erase that
 > word without erasing the rest of the file.

Read your file into a StringBuffer and call replaceAll() on the buffer's
contents with an empty replacement to wipe all occurrances of your word.
Then, write over your old file with the new String.

Ryan Calder
ryan@the-calders.com

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