Remove a specific word from a string

What the heck,

String regex = "\\s*\\bis\\b\\s*";
content = content.replaceAll(regex, "");

Remember you need to use replaceAll(...) to use regular expressions, not replace(...)

• \\b gives you the word boundaries
• \\s* sops up any white space on either side of the word being removed (if you want to remove this too).

content = content.replaceAll("\\Wis\\W|^is\\W|\\Wis$", "");