CHAPTER 11 — Java Pattern and Matcher Classes

This chapter discusses the Pattern class and the Matcher class from the java.util.regex package.

Chapter Topics:

• Pattern class
• Matcher class
• PatternSyntaxException class
• compile() method of Pattern
• matches(), lookingAt(), and find() methods of Matcher
• Capture groups

These classes contain the regular expression matching engine of the Java regex package, and are the fundamental classes used to implement the regular expression capabilities of the String and Scanner classes.