Getting a ChatColor from a String

EDIT: FIGURED IT OUT!

Code:

String[] colors = {"aqua", "black", "blue", "darkaqua", "darkblue", "darkgray", "darkgreen", "darkpurple",
                            "darkred", "gold", "gray", "green", "lightpurple", "red", "white", "yellow"};
                    ChatColor[] colorsC = {ChatColor.AQUA, ChatColor.BLACK, ChatColor.BLUE, ChatColor.DARK_AQUA,
                            ChatColor.DARK_BLUE, ChatColor.DARK_GRAY, ChatColor.DARK_GREEN, ChatColor.DARK_PURPLE,
                            ChatColor.DARK_RED, ChatColor.GOLD, ChatColor.GRAY, ChatColor.GREEN,
                            ChatColor.LIGHT_PURPLE, ChatColor.RED, ChatColor.WHITE, ChatColor.YELLOW};
                    int i = 0;

                    if(player.hasPermission("ic.setname.allow"))
                    {
                        String format = args[1];

                        for(final String s : colors)
                        {
                            if(player.hasPermission("ic.setname." + s) || player.hasPermission("ic.setname.allcol"))
                            {
                                format = format.replaceAll("%" + s + "%", colorsC[i].toString());

                                i = i + 1;
                            }
                        }

 

replaceAll is for regular expressions. I don't remember if % is a special char in a Java Regex, but you should still use replace(String, String) for basic Strings.
Also, I don't think you need to strip colors on your self-defined Strings that only contain color names.

 

If your goal is to remove colors from strings then just use:
String ChatColor.stripColor(String)

API: http://jd.bukkit.org/apidocs/org/bukkit/ChatColor.html#stripColor(java.lang.String)

 

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