replace.adoc

replace()

Important

Deprecated in 5.0. Replaced with method replace() of the string instance.

replace(string, old, new) => String

Returns the string with all the occurrences of old substring replaced with the new substring. The replacement proceeds from the beginning of the string to the end, for example, replacing "aa" with "b" in the string "aaa" will result in "ba" rather than "ab".

Table 1. Parameters

string	String	The string which will be processed.
old	String	Old substring to be replaced
new	String	The new substring, which would replace the old substring. Can be an empty string.

Return

Source string with substrings replaced.

Example

println(replace("one four three","four","two")); //Will print "one two three"
println(replace("abc  def"," ","")); //Will print "abcdef"