Java Regex String Replace First replaceFirst(StringBuffer buf, StringBuffer aux, Pattern pattern, String replacement, int pos)

Description

replace First

License

Creative Commons License

Declaration

private static boolean replaceFirst(StringBuffer buf, StringBuffer aux, Pattern pattern, String replacement,
            int pos) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/*/*from   www .  j ava 2  s .  c  om*/
 * Written by Dawid Kurzyniec and released to the public domain, as explained
 * at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain
 */

import java.util.regex.*;

public class Main {
    private static boolean replaceFirst(StringBuffer buf, StringBuffer aux, Pattern pattern, String replacement,
            int pos) {
        boolean chg = false;
        aux.setLength(0);
        Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(buf);
        if (matcher.find(pos)) {
            matcher.appendReplacement(aux, replacement);
            chg = true;
        }
        matcher.appendTail(aux);
        buf.setLength(0);
        buf.append(aux);
        return chg;
    }
}

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