Comments on: Regex syntax drama in Java http://www.redstream.nl/2008/01/01/regex-syntax-drama-in-java/ Pragmatic Integrators Tue, 18 Oct 2011 12:18:20 +0000 hourly 1 By: pandu http://www.redstream.nl/2008/01/01/regex-syntax-drama-in-java/comment-page-1/#comment-252 pandu Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:41:48 +0000 http://www.pascalalma.net/2008/01/01/regex-syntax-drama-in-java/#comment-252 nice help!!!thanks a lot for the explanation. nice help!!!thanks a lot for the explanation.

]]> By: Rob Augustinus http://www.redstream.nl/2008/01/01/regex-syntax-drama-in-java/comment-page-1/#comment-251 Rob Augustinus Wed, 27 Feb 2008 22:31:50 +0000 http://www.pascalalma.net/2008/01/01/regex-syntax-drama-in-java/#comment-251 That's an inherent problem with regular expressions. They become quite unreadable, but they are oh so powerfull. I am currently working with the following regex : "\\$[a-zA-z[.]]" which basically pulls out all $objectname.getter.maybeanothergetter like strings which will be replaced with some values provided by some reflection code. Question remains, how can I tell the end of the string to replace if it doesn't end with a special character (like a space or another delimiter?:-) Otoh this is not a problem (yet), and a possible solution would be to specify some other character to denote the end of the string (maybe some brackets). That’s an inherent problem with regular expressions. They become quite unreadable, but
they are oh so powerfull. I am currently working with the following regex : “\\$[a-zA-z[.]]”
which basically pulls out all $objectname.getter.maybeanothergetter like strings which will
be replaced with some values provided by some reflection code.

Question remains, how can I tell the end of the string to replace if it doesn’t end with
a special character (like a space or another delimiter?:-) Otoh this is not a problem (yet),
and a possible solution would be to specify some other character to denote the end
of the string (maybe some brackets).

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