Java tutorial
/* * Morphy Open Source Chess Server * Copyright (C) 2008,2009 http://code.google.com/p/morphy-chess-server/ * * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or * (at your option) any later version. * * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the * GNU General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License * along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */ package morphy.utils; import java.util.regex.Pattern; import org.apache.commons.logging.Log; import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory; public class RegExUtils { private static final Log LOG = LogFactory.getLog(RegExUtils.class); public static Pattern getPattern(String regularExpression) { return Pattern.compile(regularExpression, Pattern.MULTILINE | Pattern.DOTALL | Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE); } public static boolean matches(Pattern pattern, String stringToTest) { try { return pattern.matcher(stringToTest).matches(); } catch (Throwable t) { LOG.warn("matches threw exception. regex=" + pattern.pattern() + " test=" + stringToTest, t); return false; } } public static boolean matches(String regularExpression, String stringToTest) { try { return getPattern(regularExpression).matcher(stringToTest).matches(); } catch (Throwable t) { LOG.warn("matches threw exception. regex=" + regularExpression + " test=" + stringToTest, t); return false; } } }