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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 regular expression syntax similar to Perl.
Perl regular expression syntax
How regular expressions are handled in Java
In Java, regular expressions are supported using the java.util.regex package.
Package summary for java.util.regex
How regular expressions are handled in Ruby
Class summary for Regexp
http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Regexp.html
Example Uses
Other useful links
Basic regular expression syntax
Advanced regular expression syntax
java.util.regex Examples from The Java Developers Almanac 1.4
http://exampledepot.com/egs/java.util.regex/pkg.html