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I have a textview with autoLinks set to all. I want Skip numbers like "2018"
which are years, these numbers should not be highlighted. Is there a delimiter i can use in the text so that it skips
those numbers while parsing?

try this....

String s1="jan 2018,Saturday";  

String replaceString=s1.replace("2018","");//replaces all occurrences of "2018" to ""  

System.out.println(replaceString);

Output := jan ,Saturday.

Use Spanable String in this case to highlight Specific String.

Here is an example:
SpannableString spannableStr = new SpannableString(originalText);
ForegroundColorSpan foregroundColorSpan = new ForegroundColorSpan(Color.RED);
spannableStr.setSpan(foregroundColorSpan, 15, 30, Spanned.SPAN_INCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
spannableTextView.setText(spannableStr);

Set color and starting string index and ending index.

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I searched for your answer try this

private void stripUnderlines(TextView textView) {

    Spannable s = new SpannableString(textView.getText());

    URLSpan spans = s.getSpans(0, s.length(), URLSpan.class);

    for (URLSpan span: spans) {

        int start = s.getSpanStart(span);

        int end = s.getSpanEnd(span);

        s.removeSpan(span);

        span = new URLSpanNoUnderline(span.getURL());

        s.setSpan(span, start, end, 0);

    }

    textView.setText(s);

}

This requires a customized version of URLSpan which doesn't enable the TextPaint's "underline" property:

private class URLSpanNoUnderline extends URLSpan {

    public URLSpanNoUnderline(String url) {

        super(url);

    }

    @Override public void updateDrawState(TextPaint ds) {

        super.updateDrawState(ds);

        ds.setUnderlineText(false);

    }

}  

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Try This Code :

@Override

protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);



    textView = findViewById(R.id.textView);

    highlightTv();



}

protected void highlightTv(){

    // Specify the text/word to highlight inside TextView

    String textToHighlight = "2018";



    // Construct the formatted text

    String replacedWith = "<font color='green'>" + textToHighlight + "</font>";



    // Get the text from TextView

    String originalString = textView.getText().toString();



    // Replace the specified text/word with formatted text/word

    String modifiedString = originalString.replaceAll(textToHighlight,replacedWith);



    // Update the TextView text

    mTextView.setText(Html.fromHtml(modifiedString));

}