Java’s character and assorted string classes offer low-level support for pattern matching, but that support typically leads to complex code. For simpler and more efficient coding, Java offers the ...

The people who attended my presentations at RMOUG Training Days 2010 asked several good questions. One question that was asked in the Groovy presentation that I really wish I had included a slide on ...

The program takes a string input from user and checks it's acceptance under various regular expressions. For simplicity, we will assume that there is a fixed set of regular expressions. We will not ...

I was involved in a recent discussion on the "best" way to remove a given parameter from a URL string. The conversation began with using string primitives to split and join the parameter, a method ...

Sift is a lightweight, type-safe Java library designed to construct complex Regular Expressions through a readable, object-oriented API. It eliminates the maintenance burden of cryptic string-based ...

Vincent Danen goes over some basic regular expressions. They are handy for developers and programmers, of course, and can even be employed for Google searching. As a Linux user or administrator, the ...