Here you can find the source of replace(String text, Map
public static String replace(String text, Map<String, ?> pairs)
//package com.java2s; /*// ww w . j a v a2s . c om * Copyright (C) 2013 DASISH * * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 * of the License, or (at your option) any later version. * * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the * GNU General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */ import java.util.Map; public class Main { public static String replace(String text, Map<String, ?> pairs) { StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder(text); for (String old : pairs.keySet()) { if (old != null) { if (!old.equals("")) { replaceString(result, old, pairs.get(old)); } } } return result.toString(); } public static StringBuilder replaceString(StringBuilder source, String oldFragment, Object newObject) { if (oldFragment != null) { int lengthOld = oldFragment.length(); String newFragment; if (newObject != null) { if (newObject instanceof Integer) { newFragment = ((Integer) newObject).toString(); } else { if (newObject instanceof String) { newFragment = (String) newObject; } else { newFragment = newObject.toString(); } } } else { newFragment = " "; } int lengthNew = newFragment.length(); int indexOf = source.indexOf(oldFragment); while (indexOf > 0) { source.delete(indexOf, indexOf + lengthOld); source.insert(indexOf, newFragment); indexOf = source.indexOf(oldFragment, indexOf + lengthNew); } } return source; } }