Match words : String Operation « Regular Expressions « Java

Match words

  

import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;

public class Main {
  public static void main(String[] argv) throws Exception {
    Pattern word = Pattern.compile("\\G\\w+");

    Matcher mat = word.matcher("this is a test 999");
    System.out.println(mat.find());

  }
}
//true

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