ReplaceRange

[eelsar]

I am having the following problem, I am trying to replace one word with another. It works however sometimes it overlaps the word before it.
Here is the code that I used can someone tell me what is wrong?

String original = new String(text.getText());
String with = new String(textTest.getText());
String myString = new String (textArea.getText());
int start = 0;
int end = 0;
start = myString.indexOf(original);
end = original.length() + start;
textArea.replaceRange(with,start,end);

Thank you!

 

[Bygbobbo]

subtract 1 from:

end = (original.length() - 1) + start

because you have started at the first initial position already...

 

[eelsar]

Thank you for your response. I tried what you wrote but it doesn't seem to be working.

Using:
end = (original.length() - 1) + start

The results of replacing "quick" with "slow" in the sentence "The quick brown fox" was"
"Theslow k brown fox"

The result of the original way I was doing it was:
"Theslow brown fox"

Do you know what to do? Can you please respond? If anyone else knows please respond.

Thank you!

 

[twofingers]

I'd try a StringTokenizer and StringBuffer duo

String str = "I eat pie with both hands";
StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer(str);
StingBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
final String SPACE = ' ';
String temp;

while(st.hasMoreTokens()){
temp = st.getToken();
if(temp.equals("pie&quot){
sb.append("burgers"
}
else{
sb.append(temp);
}
if(st.hasMoreTokens())
sb.append(SPACE);
}
System.out.println(sb.toString());


i don't know if this will compile, i'm drunk. But you get the idea $: