Regular Expression?

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posted 18 years ago

Hi All,
I have always find Reqular Expression very useful in many circumstances. I wonder why isn't ReqEx part of the standard J@SE APIs?
Any idea?
Rgds
Eric Low
SCJP2

Ron Newman

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posted 18 years ago

Regular expressions are in J2SE 1.4 :
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/docs/api/java/util/regex/Pattern.html
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/docs/api/java/util/regex/Matcher.html
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/docs/api/java/lang/String.html
[ August 18, 2002: Message edited by: Ron Newman ]

Ron Newman - SCJP 1.2 (100%, 7 August 2002)

Eric Low

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posted 18 years ago

This is GREAT... Thanks Ron.

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