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/*+
 *   Copyright 2012, 2013 rsiddharth <rsiddharth@ninthfloor.org>
 * 
 *   This file is part of Scruf.
 *
 *   Scruf is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 *   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 *   the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
 *   (at your option) any later version.
 *
 *   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 *   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 *   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 *   GNU General Public License for more details.
 *
 *   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 *   along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 */


package scruf.parsers;

import java.util.regex.*;

public class NullIt {
    public String nullIt(String content,String regex) {
		// quote the regex.
		String quotedRegex = "\\Q"+regex+"\\E";
		Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile(quotedRegex);
		Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(content);
		while(matcher.find()) {
			content = matcher.replaceFirst("");
			break;
		}
		return content;
    }
}