Here you can find the source of substitute(String str, String source, String target)
public static String substitute(String str, String source, String target)
//package com.java2s; /******************************************************************************* * Copyright (C) 2010 Lucas Madar and Peter Brewer * // ww w . jav a 2 s . c o m * 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 3 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, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. * * Contributors: * Lucas Madar * Peter Brewer ******************************************************************************/ public class Main { public static String substitute(String str, String source, String target) { int index = str.indexOf(source); if (index == -1) // not present return str; int start = index, end = index + source.length(); return str.substring(0, start) + target + str.substring(end); } }