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| From | Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> |
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| Newsgroups | comp.lang.java.programmer |
| Subject | Re: Confusion about String.matches method |
| Date | 2011-06-01 18:59 +0200 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
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On 01/06/2011 17:17, Joshua Cranmer allegedly wrote:
> On 06/01/2011 10:10 AM, laredotornado wrote:
>> 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
>
> There is a flag that you can set to treat newlines as regular characters.
>
Pattern.DOTALL, to be precise. You can't use that in combination with
String#matches() however, as it is an argument to Pattern#compile. So
either go that way, or use the embedded flag, "(?s)" (put it at the
start of your regex).
--
DF.
Determinism trumps correctness.
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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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