Abstract
Regular expressions, or regex for short, describe text. They are a mechanism by which you can tell the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) how to find and potentially manipulate text for you. In this chapter, I’ll examine and contrast the traditional approach of describing text with the regex approach.
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Habibi, M. (2004). Regular Expressions. In: Java Regular Expressions: Taming the java.util.regex Engine. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0709-2_1
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