String replaceAll doesn't work!!!

[danoc93]

Hello everybody, I have a problem, I am using a Jtextpane for a chat app... the problem is that I need to replace the :) :( :/ etc expressions to <img src='image.gif'> for example...

I tried using replaceAll method:

message.replaceall(":)", "<img src='image.gif'>");
It didn't work at all... it just cleared the string...

message.replaceall("://)", "<img src='image.gif'>");
Didn't work either

message.replaceall("//://)", "<img src='image.gif'>");
That didn't clear the string, but it didn't replace anything...

How can I do it???

[DarrylBurke]

Are you using the return value or discarding it?

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[danoc93]

Apparently replaceAll doesn't replace the chars in the same string but it generates a new string instead...

I had it fixed by doing this:
message = message.replaceall(":)", "<img src='image.gif'>");

[Tolls]

And that is because Strings are immutable.
They cannot be changed.