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. Simple utilities like this one are often ...

Chimera is a software regular expression matching engine that is a hybrid of Hyperscan and PCRE. The design goals of Chimera are to fully support PCRE syntax as well as to take advantage of the high ...

I was involved in a recent discussion on the "best" way to remove a given parameter from a URL string. The conversation began with using string primitives to split and join the parameter, a method ...

The people who attended my presentations at RMOUG Training Days 2010 asked several good questions. One question that was asked in the Groovy presentation that I really wish I had included a slide on ...

Now that we know a little bit more about regular expressions and how to write them, we can actually use them to validate a String object in Java! But first, we will look at a class called Pattern in ...