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On 4/9/2014 5:52 PM, Stefan Ram wrote:

>    { final java.lang.String r = "[1-9]|1[0-9]|20";


This is the type of solution I'm used to seeing for problems of this 
type.  Roedy said he didn't want to match substrings (so "2009" should 
not be matched.  I think you just have to add some "not digit" to the 
outside of that.

  "\\D([1-9]|1[0-9]|20)\\D"

Not tested.