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== Regular expression support in Java and Ruby == | == Regular expression support in Java and Ruby == | ||
=== What are regular expressions === | === What are regular expressions? === | ||
Regular expressions provide an efficient way to match patterns against strings. | |||
Both Java and Ruby use a | |||
[http://www.regular-expressions.info/reference.html basic regular expression syntax] | |||
similar to Perl. | |||
=== How regular expressions are handled in Java === | === How regular expressions are handled in Java === | ||
Revision as of 01:00, 7 June 2008
Regular expression support in Java and Ruby
What are regular expressions?
Regular expressions provide an efficient way to match patterns against strings. Both Java and Ruby use a basic regular expression syntax similar to Perl.
How regular expressions are handled in Java
An instance of the Pattern class represents a regular expression that is specified in string form in a syntax similiar to that used by Perl.
Package summary for java.util.regex
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/util/regex/package-summary.html
How regular expressions are handled in Ruby
Class summary for Regexp
http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Regexp.html
Other useful links
java.util.regex Examples from The Java Developers Almanac 1.4
http://exampledepot.com/egs/java.util.regex/pkg.html