Oct 21, 2011 · Writing a simple regex, but I've never been very good at this. What I'm trying to do is check a string (filename) to make sure it only contains a-z, A-Z, 0-9 or the special characters …

@Lupos \s is regex for “whitespace”. To code a literal backslash in Java, you must escape the backslash with another backslash, so to code \s in the regex, you must code "\\s" in your program.

Nov 29, 2010 · Java’s Regex Unicode Problems The problem with Java regexes is that the Perl 1.0 charclass escapes — meaning \w, \b, \s, \d and their complements — are not in Java extended to …

Dec 8, 2018 · The regex compiles fine, and there are already JUnit tests that show how it works. It's just that I'm a bit confused about why the first question mark and colon are there.

[some text] [some number] [some more text] I want to extract the text in [some number] using the Java regex classes. I know roughly what regular expression I want to use (though all suggestions are …

Aug 5, 2013 · I want to write a simple regular expression to check if in given string exist any special character. My regex works but I don't know why it also includes all numbers, so when I put some …

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When you write a regex in the form of a Java String literal, you can use "\n" to pass the regex compiler a linefeed symbol, or "\\n" to pass it the escape sequence for a linefeed.

I'm just wondering if there is a way (maybe with regex) to validate that an input on a Java desktop app is exactly a string formatted as: "YYYY-MM-DD".

Java - Filtering List Entries by Regex Asked 11 years, 4 months ago Modified 6 years, 10 months ago Viewed 56k times