July 2007
Intermediate to advanced
128 pages
2h 39m
English
java.util.regex.Pattern
Models a regular expression pattern.
static Pattern compile(Stringregex)Construct a Pattern object from regex.
static Pattern compile(Stringregex, intflags)Construct a new Pattern object out of regex, and the OR’d mode-modifier constants flags.
int flags( )Return the Pattern’s mode modifiers.
Matcher matcher(CharSequenceinput)Construct a Matcher object that will match this Pattern against input.
static boolean matches(Stringregex, CharSequenceinput)Return true if regex matches the entire string input.
String pattern( )Return the regular expression used to create this Pattern.
static String quote(Stringtext)Escapes the text so that regular expression operators will be matched literally.
String[ ] split(CharSequenceinput)Return an array of the substrings surrounding matches of this Pattern in input.
String[ ] split(CharSequenceinput, intlimit)Return an array of the substrings surrounding the first limit matches of this pattern in regex.