Simple Regex Not Working

[john bah]

I am trying to run a simple regex match which is not working. Would appreciate any suggestion explaining why i cannot get a match below.

String testString = "[1] Executing 'getPrice' method";
String executingPattern = "\\[\\d+\\]\\sExecuting*";
		
if (testString.matches(executingPattern)) {
	System.out.println("MATCH");
}

i was hoping that when i will run this simple test ,it will print MATCH. But it didn't. any how i can make it work ?

I tried below variations, but none worked -

String testString = "[1] Executing 'getPrice' method";
String executingPattern = "\\[\\d+\\]\\sExecuting";
		
if (testString.matches(executingPattern)) {
	System.out.println("MATCH");
}

OR

String testString = "[1] Executing 'getPrice' method";
String executingPattern = "^\\[\\d+\\]\\sExecuting*";
		
if (testString.matches(executingPattern)) {
	System.out.println("MATCH");
}

OR

String testString = "[1] Executing 'getPrice' method";
String executingPattern = "^\\[\\d+\\]\\sExecuting";
		
if (testString.matches(executingPattern)) {
	System.out.println("MATCH");
}

[Carey Brown]

String executingPattern = "\\[\\d+\\]\\sExecuting.*";

You were missing the period.

"g*" says "zero or more g's"
"g.*" says a 'g' followed by zero or more of any character.

[john bah]

Carey Brown wrote:

String executingPattern = "\\[\\d+\\]\\sExecuting.*";

You were missing the period.

"g*" says "zero or more g's"
"g.*" says a 'g' followed by zero or more of any character.

thanks it worked.