Java Tutorial/Regular Expressions/Greedy

A greedy qualifier

   <source lang="java">

import java.util.regex.Matcher; import java.util.regex.Pattern; public class MainClass {

 public static void main(String args[]) {
   String regex = "(\\w+)(\\d\\d)(\\w+)";
   Pattern pattern = Pattern.rupile(regex);
   String candidate = "AAA99SuperJava";
   Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(candidate);
   matcher.find();
   System.out.println(matcher.group(1));
   System.out.println(matcher.group(2));
   System.out.println(matcher.group(3));
 }

} /*

• /</source>

AAA
99
SuperJava

A Reluctant qualifier

   <source lang="java">

import java.util.regex.Matcher; import java.util.regex.Pattern; public class MainClass {

 public static void main(String args[]) {
   String regex = "(\\d+?)";
   Pattern pattern = Pattern.rupile(regex);
   String candidate = "1234";
   Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(candidate);
   System.out.println(matcher.group());
 }

}</source>