String.replaceAll is considerably slower than doing the job yourself

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While using regular expressions imparts some performance impact, it should not be as terrible.

Note that using String.replaceAll() will compile the regular expression each time you call it.

You can avoid that by explicitly using a Pattern object:

Pattern p = Pattern.compile("[,. ]+");

// repeat only the following part:
String output = p.matcher(input).replaceAll("");

Note also that using + instead of * avoids replacing empty strings and therefore might also speed up the process.

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