November 2006
Intermediate to advanced
224 pages
3h 29m
English
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6. Pattern Matching with Regular Expressions
Regular expression support was introduced in Java JDK 1.4. Regular expressions specify patterns that can be matched within character sequences. Regular expressions are extremely useful in parsing strings, and will often save a programmer a lot of time and effort in performing a task in comparison to a solution that does not make use of regular expressions. Prior to being added to Java, regular expressions had been used for years by UNIX programmers. Standard UNIX tools such as Sed and Awk make use of regular expressions. Regular expressions are also commonly used in the Perl programming language. The addition of regular expressions to the JDK is a powerful addition to core Java capability.
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