A StringReplacer Util

				
//**************************************
// Name: A StringReplacer Util
// Description:Returns a new string resulting from replacing first occurrence (or all occurrences) of a string with another string. This code works!!
// By: Kong Pang Yew
//
// Inputs:1. orig = the original string
2. strReplace = the string to be replaced
3. strWidth = the string to replace with
4. all = boolean that determines whether the replace is only done on the first occurrence or on all occurrences
//
// Returns:The resulting string
//
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public class StringReplacer {
 public static String replace(String orig, String strReplace, String strWith, boolean all) {
if (orig == null || strReplace == null || strReplace.length() == 0 || strWith == null)
 throw new IllegalArgumentException("Null or zero-length arguments.");
StringBuffer buffOrig = new StringBuffer(orig);
int i = 0;
while (i + strReplace.length() <= buffOrig.length()) {
 if (buffOrig.substring(i, i + strReplace.length()).equals(strReplace)) {
buffOrig.replace(i, i + strReplace.length(), strWith);
if (!all)
 break;
else
 i += strWith.length();
 } else
i++;
}
 
return buffOrig.toString();
 }
}