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Regular expression support in Java and Ruby
What are regular expressions
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