Replacing a sequence of characters

Hello,
I'm quite surprise (but I am sure that I miss something) that JAVA doesn't give us the equivalent of the function " ereg_replace " in PHP.
Thus, i ask if there is any equivalent method as "replace" but for a String variable and
not for a Char ?
By example, i wish to replace in the following sequence of characters " 256; 134;; 45; 56;; 33; 33; 36; 98; 203;; 57 " each of 2 semicolons which follow each other By "; 0; ".
I can use " indexOf ", combined with setCharAt (via StringBuffer) for example, but that annoys me to do this, because I have the impression to miss something.
Thanks in advance.
JP.

I'm quite surprise (but I am sure that I miss
something) that JAVA doesn't give us the equivalent of
the function " ereg_replace " in PHP.Java is not a domain-specific language (as PHP is) and so it cannot (and shouldn't) afford to include all the possible domain-specific functions into the language.
Such functionality is usually added by libraries, either standard (java.* and javax.* packages) or 3-d party.
For regex functions you can choose from:
- java.util.regex.* package, since JDK 1.4
- jregex.* package, 3-d party, see http://jregex.sourceforge.net
- other 3-d party packages, like jakarta-oro, gnu.regexp, etc.
I can use " indexOf ", combined with setCharAt (via
StringBuffer) Too burdensome. Use regular expressions.

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