Replace text

The example shows you how to open an OpenDocument text document and replace text. Replace searches the whole document, including tables, lists, sections, headers, footers, notes, annotations, text boxes and shapes, and returns the number of replaced occurrences. The paragraph, its style and all other content of the paragraph remain unchanged, even when an occurrence is split over several spans.

import com.independentsoft.office.odf.TextDocument;

public class Example {

    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        try
        {
            TextDocument doc = new TextDocument("c:\\test\\input.odt");

            int count = doc.replace("John Smith", "Mary Rose");

            System.out.println(count + " occurrences replaced.");

            doc.save("c:\\test\\output.odt");
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            System.out.println(e.getMessage());
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import com.independentsoft.office.odf.TextDocument;

public class Example {

    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        try
        {
            TextDocument doc = new TextDocument("c:\\test\\template.odt");

            List<String> placeholders = new ArrayList<String>();
            placeholders.add("{name}");
            placeholders.add("{date}");
            placeholders.add("{amount}");

            List<String> values = new ArrayList<String>();
            values.add("John Smith");
            values.add("2026-06-30");
            values.add("1,250.00");

            doc.replace(placeholders, values);

            doc.save("c:\\test\\output.odt");
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            System.out.println(e.getMessage());
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

import com.independentsoft.office.odf.FindOptions;
import com.independentsoft.office.odf.SearchScope;
import com.independentsoft.office.odf.Spreadsheet;

public class Example {

    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        try
        {
            Spreadsheet book = new Spreadsheet("c:\\test\\input.ods");

            //the headers and footers of the master pages are not searched
            FindOptions options = new FindOptions(SearchScope.BODY);

            book.replace("2025", "2026", options);

            book.save("c:\\test\\output.ods");
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            System.out.println(e.getMessage());
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

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