Does anyone have an example of how to use regexsplit

Brent Putman putmanb at georgetown.edu
Fri Sep 28 16:00:39 EDT 2012


On 9/28/12 3:47 PM, Christopher Bongaarts wrote:
> I bumped into this on another project I was working on, since my perl 
> fluency greatly exceeds my Java knowledge.  The key difference seems to 
> be that Perl's "match" operator means "find this pattern somewhere in 
> the source string", while the Java match() method means "does this 
> pattern exactly match the entire source string".  


Ok.  I suspected that Java might be surrounding the regex pattern with
an implicit "^....$" or something, but I couldn't find anything in the
Javadoc to confirm that.  Perhaps I just missed.  But that would explain it.


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