Alex, you are my hero.
Such a silly mistake hahahaha.

thanks dood



I think you need to do:

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

The replaceAll method returns a String, which I assume is the changed
string.

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/lang/String.html#replaceAll
(java.lang.String,%20java.lang.String)


Alex

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 > admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Ben Coffman
 > Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 2:26 PM
 > To: ryan@the-calders.com
 > Cc: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
 > Subject: Re: Java
 >
 > 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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