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Re: Confusion about String.matches method

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On May 31, 5:53 pm, Roedy Green <see_webs...@mindprod.com.invalid>
wrote:
> On Tue, 31 May 2011 13:15:55 -0700 (PDT),laredotornado
> <laredotorn...@zipmail.com> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone
> who said :
>
>
>
> >Is there a way I can match an arbitrary string without having to
> >escape everything?  I tried putting my token in quotes ...
>
> yes. Seehttp://mindprod.com/jgloss/regex.html#AWKWARD
> for various techniques of quoting.
> --
> Roedy Green Canadian Mind Productshttp://mindprod.com
> How long did it take after the car was invented before owners understood
> cars would not work unless you regularly changed the oil and the tires?
> We have gone 33 years and still it is rare to uncover a user who
> understands computers don't work without regular backups.

K, thought I had this all rigured out thanks to everyone's
suggestions, but I still have this one RE that's failing and I can't
figure out why.  I have

"G37 Convertible\n$45,750*".matches("^.*\\Q$45,750\\E.*$")

which returns false.  If I remove the new line ("\n"), it matches, but
I can't guarantee my input won't contain new lines.  How can I modify
my regular expression to match?  Thanks, - Dave

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Confusion about String.matches method laredotornado <laredotornado@zipmail.com> - 2011-05-31 10:24 -0700
  Re: Confusion about String.matches method Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-05-31 17:28 +0000
    Re: Confusion about String.matches method laredotornado <laredotornado@zipmail.com> - 2011-05-31 13:15 -0700
      Re: Confusion about String.matches method Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2011-05-31 23:10 +0200
      Re: Confusion about String.matches method Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-05-31 21:26 +0000
      Re: Confusion about String.matches method Ian Shef <invalid@avoiding.spam> - 2011-05-31 22:20 +0000
      Re: Confusion about String.matches method Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-05-31 15:53 -0700
        Re: Confusion about String.matches method laredotornado <laredotornado@zipmail.com> - 2011-06-01 07:10 -0700
          Re: Confusion about String.matches method Nigel Wade <nmw-news@ion.le.ac.uk> - 2011-06-01 16:02 +0100
            Re: Confusion about String.matches method Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-06-06 00:50 -0700
              Re: Confusion about String.matches method Esmond Pitt <esmond.pitt@bigpond.com> - 2011-06-06 20:18 +1000
                Re: Confusion about String.matches method Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-06-07 21:15 -0700
                Re: Confusion about String.matches method Michael Wojcik <mwojcik@newsguy.com> - 2011-06-08 11:13 -0400
                Re: Confusion about String.matches method Esmond Pitt <esmond.pitt@bigpond.com> - 2011-06-09 19:19 +1000
                Re: Confusion about String.matches method Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-06-07 21:18 -0700
                Re: Confusion about String.matches method Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2011-06-08 07:50 -0700
              Re: Confusion about String.matches method Nigel Wade <nmw-news@ion.le.ac.uk> - 2011-06-06 12:15 +0100
          Re: Confusion about String.matches method Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2011-06-01 11:17 -0400
            Re: Confusion about String.matches method Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2011-06-01 18:59 +0200
          Re: Confusion about String.matches method Ian Shef <invalid@avoiding.spam> - 2011-06-01 19:41 +0000
      Re: Confusion about String.matches method Jim Janney <jjanney@shell.xmission.com> - 2011-06-01 08:41 -0600

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