How to use beginning and endline markers in regex for Java String?

Question

Why doesn\'t the following change the text for me in Android?

String content = \"test\\n=test=\\ntest\";
content = content.replaceAll(\"^=(.+)=$\", \"

        

Answer 1

Your original regex works fine if you turn on multiline mode, using (?m):

content = content.replaceAll("(?m)^=(.+)=$", "$1");

Now ^ and $ do indeed match at line boundaries.