diff --git a/virtdata-lib-basics/src/main/java/io/nosqlbench/virtdata/library/basics/shared/unary_string/ReplaceAll.java b/virtdata-lib-basics/src/main/java/io/nosqlbench/virtdata/library/basics/shared/unary_string/ReplaceAll.java
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+package io.nosqlbench.virtdata.library.basics.shared.unary_string;
+
+import io.nosqlbench.virtdata.api.annotations.Example;
+import io.nosqlbench.virtdata.api.annotations.ThreadSafeMapper;
+
+import java.util.function.Function;
+
+/**
+ * Replace all occurrences of the extant string with the replacement string.
+ */
+@ThreadSafeMapper
+public class ReplaceAll implements Function<String, String> {
+
+    private final String extant;
+    private final String replacement;
+
+    @Example({"ReplaceAll('one','two')", "Replace all occurrences of 'one' with 'two'"})
+    public ReplaceAll(String extant, String replacement) {
+        this.extant = extant;
+        this.replacement = replacement;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public String apply(String s) {
+        return s.replaceAll(extant, replacement);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/virtdata-lib-basics/src/main/java/io/nosqlbench/virtdata/library/basics/shared/unary_string/ReplaceRegex.java b/virtdata-lib-basics/src/main/java/io/nosqlbench/virtdata/library/basics/shared/unary_string/ReplaceRegex.java
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+package io.nosqlbench.virtdata.library.basics.shared.unary_string;
+
+import io.nosqlbench.virtdata.api.annotations.Example;
+import io.nosqlbench.virtdata.api.annotations.ThreadSafeMapper;
+
+import java.util.function.Function;
+import java.util.regex.Matcher;
+import java.util.regex.Pattern;
+
+/**
+ * Replace all occurrences of the regular expression with the replacement string.
+ * Note, this is much less efficient than using the simple ReplaceAll for most cases.
+ */
+@ThreadSafeMapper
+public class ReplaceRegex implements Function<String, String> {
+
+    private final String replacement;
+    private final Pattern pattern;
+
+    @Example({"ReplaceRegex('[one]','two')", "Replace all occurrences of 'o' or 'n' or 'e' with 'two'"})
+    public ReplaceRegex(String regex, String replacement) {
+        this.pattern = Pattern.compile(regex);
+        this.replacement = replacement;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public String apply(String s) {
+        Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(s);
+        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(s.length());
+        while (matcher.find()) {
+            matcher.appendReplacement(sb, replacement);
+        }
+        matcher.appendTail(sb);
+        return sb.toString();
+    }
+}
diff --git a/virtdata-lib-basics/src/test/java/io/nosqlbench/virtdata/library/basics/shared/unary_string/ReplaceRegexTest.java b/virtdata-lib-basics/src/test/java/io/nosqlbench/virtdata/library/basics/shared/unary_string/ReplaceRegexTest.java
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+package io.nosqlbench.virtdata.library.basics.shared.unary_string;
+
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
+
+public class ReplaceRegexTest {
+
+    @Test
+    public void testRegexReplacer() {
+        ReplaceRegex two = new ReplaceRegex("[one]", "two");
+        String replaced = two.apply("one");
+        assertThat(replaced).isEqualTo("twotwotwo");
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testReplaceString() {
+        ReplaceAll replaceAll = new ReplaceAll("one", "two");
+        String replaced = replaceAll.apply("onetwothree");
+        assertThat(replaced).isEqualTo("twotwothree");
+
+    }
+
+}