Censoring selected words (replacing them with ****) using a single replaceAll?

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Published on 2010-06-03T13:05:04Z Indexed on 2010/06/03 13:14 UTC
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I'd like to censor some words in a string by replacing each character in the word with a "*". Basically I would want to do

String s = "lorem ipsum dolor sit";
s = s.replaceAll("ipsum|sit", $0.length() number of *));

so that the resulting s equals "lorem ***** dolor ***".

I know how to do this with repeated replaceAll invokations, but I'm wondering, is this possible to do with a single replaceAll?

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