14. Regular Expressions

Chapter Contents

Introduction

Test Harness

String Literals

Character Classes

Predefined Character Classes

Quantifiers

Capturing Groups

Boundary Matchers

Methods of the Pattern Class

Methods of the Matcher Class

Methods of the PatternSyntaxException Class

Unicode Support

Questions and Exercises: Regular Expressions

This chapter explains how to use the java.util.regex Application Programming Interface (API) for pattern matching with regular expressions.1 Although the syntax accepted by this package is similar to the Perl programming language, knowledge of Perl is not a prerequisite.2 This chapter starts with the basics and gradually builds to cover more advanced techniques.

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