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

Okay, I think I have an answer... this seems to work:

content = content.replaceAll("(?$1")

Doesn't it?

Edit: The above doesn't work, for some reason it copies the original text and places it after the substituted text... here's what finally did work:

content = content.replaceAll("(?<=(\n|^))=(.+)=(?=(\n|$))", "$2");