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Thread: .indexOf selective replacements

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    Default .indexOf selective replacements

    I have a StringBuffer named "sentence." I need to replace all occurrences of "A", except occurrences of "A" at the end of a word, with "E".

    Example: ABABA ---> EBEBA

    However, my code returns EBEBE.

    while (sentence.indexOf("A") >= 0 && sentence.indexOf("A") != sentence.indexOf("A ") && sentence.indexOf("A") != sentence.indexOf("A."))
    		{
    			int AStart = sentence.indexOf("A");
    			int AEnd = AStart + "A".length();
    			sentence.replace(AStart, AEnd, "E");
     
    		}


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    Default Re: .indexOf selective replacements

    Is the problem that the code replaces the last "A" with an "E"?

    Add an if test to see where the location is and don't replace if it is at the end.
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    Default Re: .indexOf selective replacements

    Well, why not just check if sentence.indexOf("A")==sentence.length()-1?

    That statement says: if the index of A is the last index

    The reason it says that is because sentence.length() returns the length of the StringBuffer, while sentence.length()-1 returns the last index of the StringBuffer.
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