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regular expressions in java?

Posted by Linda Kao on June 29, 2000 at 6:52 PM

Is there the equivalent in Java, of C/Unix regular expressions? We are rewriting legacy C code in Java. In the C code we kept complex rules on formatting fields in a regular expression and then it was very easy to check if the field value was valid because we called regexp.

Example: Something in the format of DD:MM:SS.SSS N/S
would be described in the regular expression as
"^([0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2}[.][0-9]{3}[NS])$"

Then it's just a matter of calling regcomp to compare input with the regular expression. Is there an equivalent in Java?

Thanks in advance!

• regx john petri July 01, 2000 at 10:44 AM (0)