String replace method is not replacing characters

Question

I have a sentence that is passed in as a string and I am doing a replace on the word \"and\" and I want to replace it with \" \". And it\'s not replacing the word \"and\" w

Answer 1

package com.tulu.ds;

public class EmailSecurity {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.out.println(returnSecuredEmailID("sample717@gmail.com"));
    }
    private static String returnSecuredEmailID(String email){
        String str=email.substring(1, email.lastIndexOf("@")-1);
        return email.replaceAll(email.substring(1, email.lastIndexOf("@")-1),replacewith(str.length(),"*"));
    }
    private static String replacewith(int length,String replace) {
        String finalStr="";
        for(int i=0;i