Meta-characters to match against certain string boundaries. : Introduction « Regular Expressions « Java Tutorial






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Meta-CharacterMatches
^Beginning of the line
$End of the line
\bA word boundary
\BA non-word boundary
\AThe beginning of the input
\GThe end of the previous match
\ZThe end of the input before any line terminators (such as carriage-return or linefeed)
\zThe end of the input










8.1.Introduction
8.1.1.Meta-characters predefined to match specific characters.
8.1.2.Meta-characters to match against certain string boundaries.
8.1.3.Regular expression languages also have character classes.
8.1.4.POSIX character classes and Java character classes
8.1.5.Java Character Class
8.1.6.Match a particular character a specified number of times.
8.1.7.Read regular expression from console
8.1.8.Regex Test Harness
8.1.9.Match Java source file and file and class name
8.1.10.Finding all words that start with an 'a'
8.1.11.Simple validation using the Pattern and Matcher objects
8.1.12.A possessive qualifier
8.1.13.Find the starting point of the second 'Bond'
8.1.14.A negative look ahead
8.1.15.A negative behind ahead
8.1.16.A positive look ahead
8.1.17.Pattern helper
8.1.18.Escapes characters that have special meaning to regular expressions