Remove $%&* characters from a String

Hi,
I have the following program that is supposed to detect a subsequence from a String (that contains $ signs) and remove it. This is a bit tricky, since because of $ signs, the replaceAll method for String does not work. When I use replaceAll for removing the part of the String w/ no $ signs, replaceAll works perfectly, but my code needs to cover the $ signs as well.
So far, except for replaceAll, I have tried the following, with the intent to first remove $ signs from only that specific sequence in the String (in this case from $d $e $f) and then remove the remaining, which is d e f.
If anyone has any idea on this, I would greatly appreciate it!
Looking forward to your help!
public class StringDivider {
     public static void main(String [] args)
          String symbols = "$a $b $c $d $e $f $g $h $i $j $k l m n o p";
         String removeSymbols = "$d $e $f";
         int startIndex = symbols.indexOf(removeSymbols);
         int endIndex = startIndex + removeSymbols.length()-1;
         for(int i=startIndex;i<endIndex+1;i++)
              if(symbols.charAt(i)=='$')
                   //not sure what to do here, I tried using replace(oldChar, newChar), but I couldn't achieve my point, which is to
                   //delete $ signs from the specific sequence only (as opposed to all the $ signs)
         System.out.println(symbols);
}

A little modification on the last version:
This one's more accurate.
public class StringDivider {
     public static void main(String [] args){
          String symbols = "$a $b $c $d $e $f $g $h $i $j $k l m n o p";
              String removeSymbols = "$d $e $f $g";
              if(symbols.indexOf(removeSymbols)!=-1)
                   if(removeSymbols.indexOf("$")!=-1)
                        removeSymbols = removeSymbols.replace('$', ' ').trim();
                        removeSymbols = removeSymbols.replaceAll("[ ]+", " ");
                        String [] symbolsWithoutSpecialChars = removeSymbols.split(" ");
                        for(int i=0;i<symbolsWithoutSpecialChars.length;i++)
                             symbols = symbols.replaceAll("[\\$]*"+symbolsWithoutSpecialChars, "");
                         symbols = symbols.replaceAll("[ ]+", " ");
               else
                    symbols = symbols.replaceAll(removeSymbols, "");
          symbols = symbols.trim();
          System.out.println(symbols);

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