How to use boundary matchers in Regex | Java Regex | Java Regular Expressions | Regex in java

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RegexDemo.java

import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;

/**
 *
 * Boundary Matchers
 *
 */
public class RegexDemo
{

    public static void main(String[] args)
    {

        /*
         * To match only when the required regex is true at the
         * beginning of the text, we use the caret ^.
         */
        calculateMatches("^dog", "dogs are friendly");
        calculateMatches("^dog", "are dogs are friendly?");
    }

    private static void calculateMatches(String regex, String inputText)
    {
        Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile(regex);
        Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(inputText);
        int matches = 0;

        /*
         * The find method keeps advancing through the input text and
         * returns true for every match, so we can use it to find the
         * match count as well:
         */
        while (matcher.find())
        {
            ++matches;
        }
        System.out.println("Number of Matches = " + matches);
    }

}

Output

Number of Matches = 1
Number of Matches = 0

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