Replace HTML codes with equivalent characters in Java [duplicate]

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Also, is there any way to optimize this regex?

Yes, don’t use regex for this task, use Apache StringEscapeUtils from Apache commons lang:

import org.apache.commons.lang.StringEscapeUtils;
...
String withCharacters = StringEscapeUtils.unescapeHtml(yourString);

JavaDoc says:

Unescapes a string containing entity escapes to a string containing
the actual Unicode characters corresponding to the escapes. Supports
HTML 4.0 entities.

For example, the string "&lt;Fran&ccedil;ais&gt;" will become "<Français>"

If an entity is unrecognized, it is left alone, and inserted verbatim into the result string. e.g. "&gt;&zzzz;x" will become ">&zzzz;x".

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