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Description
Interface Summary | |
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MatchResult | The result of a match operation. |
Class Summary | |
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Matcher | An engine that performs match operations on a character sequence by interpreting a Pattern . |
Pattern | A compiled representation of a regular expression. |
Exception Summary | |
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PatternSyntaxException | Unchecked exception thrown to indicate a syntax error in a regular-expression pattern. |
Classes for matching character sequences against patterns specified by regular expressions.
An instance of the Pattern
class represents a
regular expression that is specified in string form in a syntax similar to
that used by Perl.
Instances of the Matcher
class are used to match
character sequences against a given pattern. Input is provided to matchers via
the CharSequence
interface in order to support matching
against characters from a wide variety of input sources.
Unless otherwise noted, passing a null argument to a method
in any class or interface in this package will cause a
NullPointerException
to be thrown.
An excellent tutorial and overview of regular expressions is Mastering Regular Expressions, Jeffrey E. F. Friedl, O'Reilly and Associates, 1997.
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