Merge pull request #5527 from som-snytt/fix/use-modern-replace

String.replaceAllLiterally is String.replace

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/src/library/scala/collection/immutable/StringLike.scala b/src/library/scala/collection/immutable/StringLike.scala
index af8703293f..fce0f073aa 100644
--- a/src/library/scala/collection/immutable/StringLike.scala
+++ b/src/library/scala/collection/immutable/StringLike.scala
@@ -165,20 +165,14 @@ self =>
     if (toString.endsWith(suffix)) toString.substring(0, toString.length() - suffix.length)
     else toString
 
-  /** Replace all literal occurrences of `literal` with the string `replacement`.
-   *  This is equivalent to [[java.lang.String#replaceAll]] except that both arguments
-   *  are appropriately quoted to avoid being interpreted as metacharacters.
+  /** Replace all literal occurrences of `literal` with the literal string `replacement`.
+   *  This method is equivalent to [[java.lang.String#replace]].
    *
    *  @param    literal     the string which should be replaced everywhere it occurs
    *  @param    replacement the replacement string
    *  @return               the resulting string
    */
-  def replaceAllLiterally(literal: String, replacement: String): String = {
-    val arg1 = Regex.quote(literal)
-    val arg2 = Regex.quoteReplacement(replacement)
-
-    toString.replaceAll(arg1, arg2)
-  }
+  def replaceAllLiterally(literal: String, replacement: String): String = toString.replace(literal, replacement)
 
   /** For every line in this string:
    *