Troublesome replaceAll

[yodaa]

Hi,

I'm trying to use java.lang.String.replaceAll() to replace a string that exists within a string with no luck. I'm developing a smaller search engine and want to remove any occurrences of "common words" in query string. The common words are stored in an ArrayList.
The code is as follows

// Create an iterator (common_words is a public variable)
Iterator it = common_words.iterator();
// Variable to contain the common word
String c_m = new String();
// Do it!
while ( it.hasNext() ) {
    // Common word
    c_m = (String)it.next();
    // Replace common word if it exists
    string.replaceAll(c_m, "");
}
// Return string
return string;

I use the replaceAll() with success if I use to remove the wild-card character some_string.replaceAll("\\*", ""); from some_string. But it wont work with my c_m variable.

Any ideas?

 

[sedj]

Replace :

string.replaceAll(c_m, "");


With :

string = string.replaceAll(c_m, "");


Eg :

		String commonWord = "cat";
		String line = "A story about a cat in the hat";
		System.out.println(line);

		line = line.replaceAll(commonWord, "");

		System.out.println(line);

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[yodaa]

Hehe, oh my God, how could I not see that one, dizzy me?!

Thank you very much sedj!