How to replace first occurrence of string in Java

Question

I want to replace first occurrence of String in the following.

  String test = \"see Comments, this is for some test, help us\"

**If test c

Answer 1

You can use following statement to replace first occurrence of literal string with another literal string:

String result = input.replaceFirst(Pattern.quote(search), Matcher.quoteReplacement(replace));

However, this does a lot of work in the background which would not be needed with a dedicated function for replacing literal strings.