What is the equivalent of Regex-replace-with-function-evaluation in Java 7?

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Your answer is in the Matcher#appendReplacement documentation. Just put your function call in the while loop.

[The appendReplacement method] is intended to be used in a loop together with the appendTail and find methods. The following code, for example, writes one dog two dogs in the yard to the standard-output stream:

Pattern p = Pattern.compile("cat");
Matcher m = p.matcher("one cat two cats in the yard");
StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
while (m.find()) {
    m.appendReplacement(sb, "dog");
}
m.appendTail(sb);
System.out.println(sb.toString());

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