I\'m trying to write a method that removes all non alphabetic characters from a Java String[] and then convert the String to an lower case string. I\'ve tried u
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You need to assign the result of your regex back to lines[i].
for ( int i = 0; i < line.length; i++) { line[i] = line[i].replaceAll("[^a-zA-Z]", "").toLowerCase(); }