replace non alphabetic letters

[arvin]

Hi Guys(and girls?)!

I am trying to replace non alphabetic letter with the right letter(i.e $ == s, @ === a).

The body of the method:

Pattern	p = Pattern.compile("[^a-zA-Z\\s]");
		Matcher	m = p.matcher(string);
		
		if(m.find()){
                     string.replaceAll("[$]","s");
                     string.replaceAll("[@]","a");
                     string.replaceAll("[5]","s");
                     string.replaceAll("[|]","i");
                     //And so on
                }

Most of the strings that are sent to this method will probably not have any non-alphabetic letters and that is why i decided to code it like this. So if there is no match, then it wont be neccesary to go through all the code in the if-statement, which will save a lot of time and resources.

The problem is how i should code the body of the if-statement. Should i just hard code it like this for like 50 different non alphabetic letters(maybe more)? The problem is that what if there is only one non-alphabetic letter that needs to be replaced, then i will use a lot of unnecessary reasourcers. It might be millions of differents strings so it needs to be fast and efficient.

Some help would be much appreciated.

Regards
Arvin

[KevinWorkman]

Why even bother with the if statement at all?

[arvin]

Because i don't want to go through the instructions if it aint neccesary.