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This example demonstrate how we do regular expression in Java. The regular expression classes is in the java.uti.regex package. The main class including the java.util.regex.Pattern class and the java.util.regex.Matcher class.

In this example we are only testing to match a string literal if it is exists in the following sentence, we are searching the word lazy.

package org.kodejava.example.regex;

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

public class RegexDemo {
public static void main(String[] args) {
/*
* To create a Pattern instance we must call the static method called compile()
* in the Pattern class. Pattern object is the compiled representation of a regular
* expression.
*/
Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("lazy");

/*
* The Matcher class also don't have the public constructor so to create a matcher
* class the Patter's class matcher() method. The Matcher object it self is the engine
* that match the input string against the provided pattern.
*/
Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher("The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog");

while (matcher.find()) {
System.out.format("Text \"%s\" found at %d to %d.%n",
matcher.group(), matcher.start(), matcher.end());
}
}
}