Complete your introduction to the Regex API, then find out how regular expressions make quicker work of common tasks like code documentation and lexical analysis.

The Java Tutorials ‘s lesson on regular expressions introduces Java’s support for regular expressions via the java.util.regex package and highlights the two classes Pattern and Matcher.

The topic of regular expressions is rich and complex, and Java's implementation of it is comprehensive. A thorough study of the package would be a significant undertaking, and we have only presented ...