Regex to remove blacklisted words from a sentence

Question

How can I use a regext to filter out a list of blacklisted(Obscene) words, such that if a black listed words is like \'Bill Joseph\'

 Then \'I am Bill Josephine         


        

Answer 1

Simple, and this works:

String badStrRegex = "\\WBill Joseph\\W?";
Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile(badStrRegex);
Matcher m = pattern.matcher(testStr);  //testStr is your string under test
boolean isBad = m.find();

It works!! Tested against all your input.