CHAPTER 10 — Java Strings and Regular Expressions

The Java class String has several methods that work with regular expressions.

This chapter uses the features of regular expressions explained in the previous chapters of these notes.

Chapter Topics:

• matches() method
• Escaping metacharacters in String literals
• Checking user input
• replaceAll() method
• capture groups
• replaceFirst() method
• split() method

This section assumes that you know the common methods of the Java String class.