How to simply replace multiple characters with just one char?

Question

I want to replace some characters with accents in String, like this example:

str.replace('á','a'); str.replace('â','a'); str.replace('ã','a'); 

This will work, but I want to know if there is some easy way to pass all the characters that need to be replaced, and the char that will replace them. Something like that:

 replace(str,"áâã",'a'); 

or

 char[] chars = {'á','â','ã'}; replace(str,chars,'a'); 

I looked at StringUtils from Apache Lang , but not the way I mentioned.

Answer 1

Would you like to watch

 str.replaceAll(regex, replacement); 

At the top of my head, I can't remember the Java regex format, so I can't give you a format that catches these three. In my opinion, that would be

 '[áâã]' 

Answer 2

Try .replaceAll() : str.replaceAll ('[áâã]', 'a');

Answer 3

This should work str.replaceAll ("[áâã]", 'a')

Answer 4

 str.replaceChars("áâã", "aaa"); 

Answer 5

Perhaps a simple originalString.replaceAll("á|â|ã", "a") will do

Answer 6

 str.replaceAll("[áâã]","a"); 

Try this - this is a regular expression talking about replacing the appearance of each character with "a"