For simpler and more efficient coding, Java offers the Regex API. This two-part tutorial helps you get started with regular expressions and the Regex API.

The Java Tutorials ‘s lesson on regular expressions introduces Java’s support for regular expressions via the java.util.regex package and highlights the two classes Pattern and Matcher.

The java.util.regex package is breathtaking in the thoroughness of its implementation and, as always, is meticulously documented. Even more obscure regex arcana are present, such as lookaheads and ...