Remove all non-“word characters” from a String in Java, leaving accented characters?

Question

Apparently Java\'s Regex flavor counts Umlauts and other special characters as non-\"word characters\" when I use Regex.

        \"TESTÜTEST\".replaceAll( \"         


        

Answer 1

Well, here is one solution I ended up with, but I hope there's a more elegant one...

StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder();
for(int i=0; i

result ends up with the desired result...