Replace First

This verb replaces the first occurrence of the specified regular expression.

Example

Fields

Regular Expression

Regular Expression that matches the substring to replace.

Replace With

Regular expression that specifies the replacement string.

Remarks

The matching instance is replaced the string specified by the value specified in the Replace with field.

For details on creating regular expressions, see:

• http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/docs/api/java/util/regex/Pattern.html
• http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/docs/api/java/util/regex/Matcher.html#replaceAll (java.lang.String)

The pattern option CASE_INSENSITIVE, DOTALL, and UNICODE_CASE are used but can be reversed using the appropriate embedded escapes.