Our first program demonstrates the use of regular expressions in Java. Here’s the full source code:
To run the program, compile the code into a .class file and then use java to execute it.
This example demonstrates various operations with regular expressions in Java:
Simple pattern matching
Compiling patterns
Finding matches
Extracting submatches
Finding all matches
Replacing matched text
Note that Java’s regex API is somewhat different from Go’s. Instead of having many methods on a single object, Java splits functionality between Pattern and Matcher classes. The Pattern class represents a compiled regular expression, while the Matcher class is used to perform match operations on a character sequence by interpreting a Pattern.
For a complete reference on Java regular expressions, check the java.util.regex package documentation.