July 2007
Intermediate to advanced
128 pages
2h 39m
English
Java 1.4 introduced regular expressions with Sun’s java.util.regex package. Although there are competing packages available for previous versions of Java, Sun’s is now the standard. Sun’s package uses a Traditional NFA match engine. For an explanation of the rules behind a Traditional NFA engine, see "Introduction to Regexes and Pattern Matching.” This section covers regular expressions in Java 1.5 and 1.6.