diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
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+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+  <groupId>stringProblem</groupId>
+  <artifactId>stringProblem</artifactId>
+  <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+
+
+<dependencies>
+<dependency>
+ 	<groupId>org.testng</groupId>
+ <artifactId>testng</artifactId>
+ <version>6.9.9</version>
+ <scope>test</scope>
+ </dependency>
+ 
+ 
+ 
+ </dependencies>
+ <build>
+   <pluginManagement>
+ <plugins>
+   <plugin>
+    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+    <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
+    <version>2.19.1</version>
+  </plugin>
+  </plugins>
+ </pluginManagement> </build>
+ 
+ </project>
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diff --git a/src/main/java/test/StringProblem.java b/src/main/java/test/StringProblem.java
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+package test;
+
+import org.testng.Assert;
+import org.testng.annotations.*;
+
+public class StringProblem {
+
+	// Replace character from string using string utils
+	public String replaceChar(String s, String s1) {
+		String newString = null;
+		if (s == null)
+			return null;
+		else {
+			try {
+				newString = s.replaceAll(s1, "");
+			} catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
+				e.printStackTrace();
+			}
+			return newString;
+		}
+	}
+
+	// String replace character one at a time in aloop
+	public String replaceCharInLoop(String s, char ch) {
+		if (s == null)
+			return null;
+		else {
+			StringBuilder str = new StringBuilder();
+			String newString = null;
+			try {
+				char[] c = s.toCharArray();
+
+				for (char i : c) {
+					if (i != ch) {
+						str.append(i);
+					}
+
+				}
+
+				newString = str.toString();
+			}
+
+			catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
+				e.printStackTrace();
+			}
+			return newString;
+		}
+
+	}
+
+	// Test the methods with different set of data
+
+	@DataProvider(name = "StringData")
+	public Object[][] stringdata1() {
+
+		Object[][] o = {{ "abcdcd", "abdd" }, { "ABCDCD", "ABCDCD" },
+				{ null, null }, { "", "" } };
+		return o;
+
+	}
+
+	@Test(dataProvider = "StringData")
+	public void testStringReplce(String s, String s1) {
+
+		String newString = replaceChar(s, "c");
+
+		Assert.assertEquals(newString, s1);
+	}
+
+	@Test(dataProvider = "StringData")
+	public void testStringReplceCharInLoop(String s, String s1) {
+
+		String newString = replaceCharInLoop(s, 'c');
+
+		Assert.assertEquals(newString, s1);
+	}
+
+}
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diff --git a/src/main/java/testng_stringproblem.xml b/src/main/java/testng_stringproblem.xml
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+<!DOCTYPE suite SYSTEM "http://testng.org/testng-1.0.dtd" >
+
+
+
+<suite name="TestNgMavenSuite">
+<test name="Stringreplace">
+<classes>
+<class name="test.StringProblem"/>
+</classes>
+
+
+</test>
+
+</suite>
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