Devel: Regular Expressions in J2SE 1.4

[Warren Togami]

http://www.sys-con.com/java/article.cfm?id=1273

How incredibly useful... Sun added regular expressions to Java 1.4.
"A regular expression (regex) is an essential part of software development.
Indeed, the programming language Perl is, in effect, a language written
around a regex parser.  This article focuses on Sun's implementation of a
regular expression package, java.util.regex. In addition, this article also
assumes you have some familiarity with regular expressions (if not, see the
sidebar for a brief introduction). Each regular expression used here,
however, is fully described, so even a regex neophyte should have no
trouble."