The javax.util.regex package is a new package in Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition version 1.4. The package provides a regular expression library. A regular expression is a pattern of characters that describes a set of strings, and is often used in pattern matching. The classes in the javax.util.regex package let you match sequences of characters against a regular expression. These classes, which comprise the regular expression library, use the Perl 5 regular expression pattern syntax, and provide a much more powerful way of parsing text than was previously available with the java.io.StreamTokenizer and the java.util.StringTokenizer classes.
The regular expression library has three classes: Pattern, Matcher, and PatternSyntaxException. Ignoring the exception class, what you really have is one class to define the regular expression you want to match (the Pattern), and another class (the Matcher) for searching a pattern in a given string. Regards, Vikramjit Singh, Systems Engineer, GTL Ltd. Ph. 7612929-1031 -----Original Message----- From: Emmanuel Eze [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 7:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Passing "array parameters" from one page to another Hi all, Does anyone know any java class or method that will enable me repeat a character n times? Example: if I want "******", I will call methodname('*',6). Thanks in advance Emma =========================================================================== To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff JSP-INTEREST". For digest: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "set JSP-INTEREST DIGEST". Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at: http://archives.java.sun.com/jsp-interest.html http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.jsp http://www.jguru.com/faq/index.jsp http://www.jspinsider.com =========================================================================== To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff JSP-INTEREST". For digest: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "set JSP-INTEREST DIGEST". Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at: http://archives.java.sun.com/jsp-interest.html http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.jsp http://www.jguru.com/faq/index.jsp http://www.jspinsider.com
