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Regular Expression Pocket Reference, 2nd Edition
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Regular Expression Pocket Reference, 2nd Edition

by Tony Stubblebine
July 2007
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
128 pages
2h 39m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

java.util.regex.Pattern

Description

Models a regular expression pattern.

Methods

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.

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