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Information on regular expressions can be found here: [http://www.regular-expressions.info/]
Information on regular expressions can be found here: [http://www.regular-expressions.info/]
Note that because this is Java, the regular expression are slightly different from regular 'regular expressions'. Here is a link where you can test your expression and it will change it to a java-type expression for you: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~matuszek/Gene ... ester.html
Note that because this is Java, the regular expression are slightly different from regular 'regular expressions'.  
Here is the java page that explains what the java regular expressions are. [https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/regex/Pattern.html]
 
There are many online regex testers to help you work them out: [http://duckduckgo.com/?q=java+regex+tester]
 
Note: the newline or (line-break) character is \\\n  (three slashes). All the other characters like {space} require two slashes \\s
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Latest revision as of 06:16, 18 December 2023

Information on regular expressions can be found here: [1] Note that because this is Java, the regular expression are slightly different from regular 'regular expressions'. Here is the java page that explains what the java regular expressions are. [2]

There are many online regex testers to help you work them out: [3]

Note: the newline or (line-break) character is \\\n (three slashes). All the other characters like {space} require two slashes \\s