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/**
 * Replaces each substring of this string that matches the given <a
 * href="../util/regex/Pattern.html#sum">regular expression with the
 * given replacement.
 *
 * An invocation of this method of the form
 * str{@code .replaceAll(}regex{@code ,} repl{@code )}
 * yields exactly the same result as the expression
 *
 * {@link java.util.regex.Pattern}.{@link
 * java.util.regex.Pattern#compile(String) compile}(regex).{@link
 * java.util.regex.Pattern#matcher(java.lang.CharSequence) matcher}(str).{@link
 * java.util.regex.Matcher#replaceAll(String) replaceAll}(repl)
 *
 * Note that backslashes ({@code \}) and dollar signs ({@code $}) in the
 * replacement string may cause the results to be different than if it were
 * being treated as a literal replacement string; see
 * {@link java.util.regex.Matcher#replaceAll Matcher.replaceAll}.
 * Use {@link java.util.regex.Matcher#quoteReplacement} to suppress the special
 * meaning of these characters, if desired.
 *
 * @param   regex
 *          the regular expression to which this string is to be matched
 * @param   replacement
 *          the string to be substituted for each match
 *
 * @return  The resulting {@code String}
 *
 * @throws  PatternSyntaxException
 *          if the regular expression's syntax is invalid
 *
 * @see java.util.regex.Pattern
 *
 * @since 1.4
 */
public String replaceAll(String regex, String replacement) {
    return Pattern.compile(regex).matcher(this).replaceAll(replacement);
}