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On 2019-11-27 14:32, chad altenburg wrote:
> This is sort of Java related. 
> 
> This is about searching for a word in a Java using regex.
> 
> I have the word "AlarmService".
> 
> 1)searching for "alarm" produces "AlarmService"
> 
> 2)searching for "alarmS" produces nothing
> 
> 3)searching for "AlarmS" produces "AlarmService"
> 
> The question is how come having a lowercase in "a" in 1 produces the entire word
> while the lowercase "a" in 2 doesn't? Ie, I have to change it uppercase in order to get the correct result. 
> 

> This is about searching for a word in a Java using regex.

Is it really?

> I'm using the Java IDE that comes with Android Studio for Windows 10.

I'm using IntelliJ. So not the same IDE, but perhaps the same mechanism.

IntelliJ has a nifty function when it comes to searching for items
(files, classes, etc.). If your input string is all lowercase, it
returns any item that starts with that input, ignoring case. But if you
start mixing uppercase in the input, it performs a sort of extremely
useful camel-case search, in which "AS" and "AlS" will match both
"AlarmService" and "AluminumSwingSet", but "AlSe" will match only
"AlarmService" (of the two, at least).

Which doesn't have anything to do with regexes, per se.

-- 
DF.