Fast track your regular expressions with the help of possessive quantifiers, independent grouping, lookarounds, and the regex pattern-matching engine itself.

Until recently, using regular expressions in Java has meant using third-party class libraries, many of which were of inconsistent quality and poorly maintained.

Pattern matching is an important technique used in text processing, and Regex is here to help. Find out how to use the Pattern class and constructs like quantifiers and boundary matchers to ...