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Replace carets with HTML superscript markup using Java

Asked 2009-03-10T20:46:09.287
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As part of a project for school, I need to replace a string from the form:

5 * x^3 - 6 * x^1 + 1

to something like:

5x<sup>3</sup> - 6x<sup>1</sup> + 1

I believe this can be done with regular expressions, but I don't know how to do it yet.

Can you lend me a hand?

P.S. The actual assignment is to implement a Polynomial Processing Java application, and I'm using this to pass polynomial.toString() from the model to the view, and I want do display it using html tags in a pretty way.

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If this is for any general math expression and parenthetical expressions are allowed, it will be very difficult (perhaps impossible) to do this with regular expressions.

If the only replacements are the ones you showed, it's not that hard to do. First strip out *'s, then use capturing like Can Berk Güder showed to handle the ^'s.

answered 2009-03-10T20:56:14.863

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