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Java 9 Regular Expressions

By : Anubhava Srivastava

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Overview of this book

Regular expressions are a powerful tool in the programmer's toolbox and allow pattern matching. They are also used for manipulating text and data. This book will provide you with the know-how (and practical examples) to solve real-world problems using regex in Java. You will begin by discovering what regular expressions are and how they work with Java. This easy-to-follow guide is a great place from which to familiarize yourself with the core concepts of regular expressions and to master its implementation with the features of Java 9. You will learn how to match, extract, and transform text by matching specific words, characters, and patterns. You will learn when and where to apply the methods for finding patterns in digits, letters, Unicode characters, and string literals. Going forward, you will learn to use zero-length assertions and lookarounds, parsing the source code, and processing the log files. Finally, you will master tips, tricks, and best practices in regex with Java.

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

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Getting Started with Regular Expressions

Introduction to regular expressions

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Understanding the Core Constructs of Java Regular Expressions

Understanding the core constructs of regular expressions

Quantifiers

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Working with Groups, Capturing, and References

Capturing groups

Non-capturing groups

Back references

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Regular Expression Programming Using Java String and Scanner APIs

Introduction to the Java String API for regular expressions' evaluation

Using regular expressions in Java Scanner API

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Introduction to Java Regular Expression APIs - Pattern and Matcher Classes

The MatchResult interface

The Pattern class

The Matcher class

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Exploring Zero-Width Assertions, Lookarounds, and Atomic Groups

Zero-width assertions

\G boundary assertion

Atomic groups

Lookahead assertions

Lookbehind assertions

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Understanding the Union, Intersection, and Subtraction of Character Classes

The union of character classes

The intersection of character classes

The subtraction of character classes

Why should you use composite character classes?

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Regular Expression Pitfalls, Optimization, and Performance Improvements

Common pitfalls and ways to avoid them while writing regular expressions

How to test and benchmark your regular expression performance

Catastrophic or exponential backtracking

Optimization and performance enhancement tips

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Introduction to Java Regular Expression APIs - Pattern and Matcher Classes

In this chapter, we will introduce you to dedicated Java APIs for writing programs using regular expressions. Java provides a package, java.util.regex, which contains all the classes and interfaces for handling regular expressions. This package is in the java.base module, so we do not explicitly declare its use in the module-info.java source file. The java.base module is automatically required by all modules, and it contains the most important and basic JDK packages and classes. Regular expressions is such an important topic and tool that Java 9 experts decided to keep it inside the java.base module.

We will cover the following classes and interfaces from this package: