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Using String.replaceAll() to remove character combination
I need to remove all redundant hyphens in a given string, e.g.: "Bla----Bla---Bla--Bla" to "Bla-Bla-Bla-Bla", using as little code as possible.
At the moment I've implemented this:
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Error escaping double quotes in large JSON string in Apex
I have large JSON response that I am trying to escape all instances of strings that are problematic for deserialization but am having some issues.
Using .replaceAll works but that throws a "Regex too ...
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String.replaceAll not able to replace String escape character
While making an API Call, my json String is containing \, which I want to remove. But I am not able to do so, by using the replaceAll method of String class. Can anyone please help?
The json request ...
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Why can't I apply replaceAll in my controller function?
I have the following component class, whose function is solely to modify a string for an email template. It works fine, inserting the concatenated string into the email.
public class ...
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Replace single quotes
I need to replace single quotes. However, I cannot use the "
double quote character. Therefore, I cannot do something like this:
String s = "Hello 'thanks' bye";
s = s.replaceAll("'", "\\'");
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replace ' with \' in apex code
i have string variable called "Identifier" which has apostrophe in it.
example: Identifier = "string's length"
i need to replace this apostrophe with "\'"
the result should be Identifier = "string\'...
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Replace + Sign by Underscore
Trying to replace a character '+' with underscore.
Tried:
String s = 'Happy+Me';
System.debug(s.replaceAll('\\+', '_');
System.debug(s.replaceAll('/\[+]', '_');
Still gives me 'Happy+Me' result. ...
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String Class normalizeSpace() and replaceAll() doesn't work with the Rich text area field
Does anybody know why the normalizeSpace() or replaceAll() doesn't work with my rich text area field? I tried entering same value that I have on the rich text area and manually adding it on a variable(...
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Replace String with Wildcard
Is it possible to replaceall on a string using wildcards?
For example
string adder;
adder = '[Test | 123 ! xyz]';
string replaced;
replaced = adder.replaceall('|%!','');
System.AssertEquals(...
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Regex does not work on incoming mail
I'm trying to delete gmail history before creating a case comment.
The line of code causing the problem seems to be
.replaceAll('On\\s.+\\sat\\s.+\\s<\\s*\\r*.+@.+>\\swrote:(.|\\n|\\r)*','')
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Replace double character with single in string
I have to replace double semicolon (;;) in a string with single comma(,) in an apex class. Can someone help me?
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Simple APEX String Replacement - can't unencode quotation marks
I've tried quite a few different methods to unencode a simple string but nothing's turning up.
That's the end of my API call, using a regex solution I found online, although it's not working out.
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Replaceall() function working weird
I have a requirement where I need to format 'Phone Number' field which is of type 'Phone'. It should not allow some of the special characters like %$#@*&, so am trying to replace each character ...
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Translate spanish characters to english for field values
I have a requirement to translate few predetermined spanish characters to english in field values of different custom objects. I have tried to create a generic code. can someone please let me know ...
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Issue with the string.replace method in salesforce
I have a string (1 and 2) Or (3 and 4) the format of the () can be changed because it is auto generated in the filter of the reports. and i do have four conditions that
1) Age = '60'
2) FirstName = ...
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How to remove ( from the string
I have a string value where I am getting the a integer with ')' I want to remove the ')' have the value separated from all the unwanted special characters. Do any one here have any idea how can I ...
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How to replace 'MyFirstName' by 'My First Name'
Is there any easy way, by using regex and replaceAll method, to tranform MyFirstName by My First Name. I know I could loop through each character but I was wondering if it was possible to do that in ...
