Java replace only first occurrence of a substring in a string

Question

This is somehow a duplicate of this problem Ruby - replace the first occurrence of a substring with another string just in java.

Problem is:

I have a string:

Answer 1

You should use already tested and well documented libraries in favor of writing your own code!

StringUtils.replaceOnce("aba", "a", "")    = "ba"

(copied from How to replace string only once without regex in Java?)

Answer 2

Try using replaceFirst() (available since Java 1.4), it does just what you need:

string = string.replaceFirst("ha", "gurp");

Answer 3

Try the replaceFirst method. It uses a regular expression, but the literal sequence "ha" still works.

string.replaceFirst("ha", "gurp");