Java I/O, NIO and NIO.2

Chapter    9

Regular Expressions

Text-processing applications often need to match text against patterns (character strings that concisely describe sets of strings that are considered to be matches). For example, an application might need to locate all occurrences of a specific word pattern in a text file so that it can replace those occurrences with another word. NIO includes regular expressions to help text-processing applications perform pattern matching with high performance. This chapter introduces regular expressions.

Pattern, PatternSyntaxException, and Matcher

A regular expression (also known as a regex or regexp) is a string-based pattern that represents the set of strings that match this pattern. The pattern consists of literal characters ...