Tuesday 2 January 2018

How to use predefined character class word character and non-word character | Regex in java


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RegexDemo.java

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

/**
 *
 * Predefined Character Classes
 *
 * The Java regex API also accepts predefined character classes.One
 * special aspect of the Java version of this regex is the escape
 * character.
 *
 * As we will see, most characters will start with a backslash, which
 * has a special meaning in Java. For these to be compiled by the
 * Pattern class – the leading backslash must be escaped i.e. \w
 * becomes \\w.
 *
 */

public class RegexDemo
{

    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        /*
         * Matching a word character, equivalent to [a-zA-Z_0-9]:
         */

        calculateMatches("\\w", "Hi9!#");
        /*
         * Matching a non-word character:
         */

        calculateMatches("\\W", "Hi9!#");
    }

    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 = 3
Number of Matches = 2

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