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 ...

The first half of this tutorial introduced you to regular expressions and the Regex API. You learned about the Pattern class, then worked through examples demonstrating regex constructs, from basic ...

All but the most casual Linux users no doubt have encountered regular expressions, if only in a cursory manner. Regular expressions are extremely powerful and flexible pattern-matching and -replacing ...

Regular expressions are a universal tool for matching, validating, and transforming text across programming languages and command-line tools. They can condense complex string operations into compact, ...

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 ...