For simpler and more efficient coding, Java offers the Regex API. This two-part tutorial helps you get started with regular expressions and the Regex API.

The Java Tutorials ‘s lesson on regular expressions introduces Java’s support for regular expressions via the java.util.regex package and highlights the two classes Pattern and Matcher.

All but the most casual Linux users no doubt have encountered regular expressions, if only in a cursory manner. Regular expressions are extremely powerful and flexible pattern-matching and -replacing ...