How to Replace dot in a string in Java

Question

I have a String called persons name  I want to replace the DOT   with      i e my output will be persons   name  I tried this code   String a          str xpath replaceAll        a     I am getting StringIndexOutOfBoundsException   How do I replace the dot

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You need two backslashes before the dot  one to escape the slash so it gets through  and the other to escape the dot so it becomes literal   Forward slashes and asterisk are treated literal   str xpath replaceAll                           replaces a literal   with       http   docs oracle com javase 7 docs api java lang String html replaceAll java lang String  20java lang String

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Use Apache Commons Lang   String a           str   StringUtils replace xpath       a     or with standalone JDK   String a               or  String a          String replacement   Matcher quoteReplacement a   String searchString   Pattern quote       String str   xpath replaceAll searchString  replacement

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If you want to replace a simple string and you don t need the abilities of regular expressions  you can just use replace  not replaceAll   replace replaces each matching substring but does not interpret its argument as a regular expression   str   xpath replace

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return sentence replaceAll   s

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