Java – how do I replace multiple items in a list?

I added a few characters to the list to replace it with a string Here they are:

List<Character> list = new ArrayList<Character>();
list.add(',');
list.add('?');
list.add(',');
list.add(':');
list.add('-');
list.add('(');
list.add(')');
list.add(';');
list.add('/');

I want to replace all the characters in the list with the string "s"

s.replaceAll(list,"");

Of course, I can't do this because list is not a string But what can I do?

Edit so if

String s = "I am cool; not good!";

I want the list to recognize that it contains'; ' And "!", It does not replace those characters in string s without anything The result will be:

"I am cool not good"

Solution

Instead of using list < character >, I would use regular expressions:

s.replaceAll("[,?:();/-]","");

If you absolutely must define characters in a list, first convert the list to such a regular expression