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From: Jim Janney <jjanney@shell.xmission.com>
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Subject: Re: Confusion about String.matches method
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2011 08:41:25 -0600
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laredotornado <laredotornado@zipmail.com> writes:

> On May 31, 12:28 pm, Andreas Leitgeb <a...@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at>
> wrote:
>> laredotornado <laredotorn...@zipmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> > I'm using Java 1.6.  How would I modify my regular expression below
>> > ^Starting at \$32,000*$
>>
>> ^Starting at \$32,000\*$
>>
>> > so that it will match the string, "Starting at $32,000*".  In other
>> > words, I have
>> > String regEx = "^Starting at \\$32,000*$";
>>
>> String regEx = "^Starting at \\$32,000\\*$";
>>
>> > String text = "Starting at $32,000*";
>> > if (!text.matches(regEx)) {
>> >       throw new RuntimeException("does not match");
>> > }
>> > but the exception is always thrown.  Please let me know how can I
>> > modify my reg ex to match.  Thanks, - Dave
>>
>>
>
> Is there a way I can match an arbitrary string without having to
> escape everything?  I tried putting my token in quotes ...
>
> String regEx = "^Starting at (\"$32,000*\")$";
>
> but that failed to match.  - Dave

String regEx= "^Starting at " + Pattern.quote("$32,000*") + "$";

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Jim Janney