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Brief summary of regular expressions in Ruby versus Java
Ruby supports regular expressions as a language feature without the inclusion of any special classes or modules. Java on the other hand does native regular expression support and it requires the use of special regular expression classes to use them.
Ruby's regular expressions in more depth
Java's regular expressions in more depth
-- Michael Frisch (Tuesday, June 3, 2008)