In my last blog post , I looked at using a simple Java application to determine which characters would work as desired for splitting a String with String.split .

The Java pattern-matching engine and backtracking The java.util.regex package uses a type of pattern-matching engine called a Nondeterministic Finite Automaton, or NFA. It’s called ...

The java.util.regex package is breathtaking in the thoroughness of its implementation and, as always, is meticulously documented. Even more obscure regex arcana are present, such as lookaheads and ...