Java has always been an excellent language for working with objects. However, Java’s text manipulation mechanisms have always been somewhat limited, especially ... » 

Java has always been an excellent language for working with objects. However, Java’s text manipulation mechanisms have always been somewhat limited, especially when compared to languages such as AWK and Perl. The introduction of an excellent regular expressions package into Java 2 Standard Edition (J2SE) rectifies this. The new java.util.regex package offers everything a developer needs to use regular expressions, all packaged in an easy-to-use, object-oriented framework.This book is a valuable reference for learning about regular expressions in Java. It focuses on the use of regular expressions in the Java language. This book offers working examples, best practices, an extremely detailed API reference with examples for almost every method, and a step-by-step tutorial on how to go about forming your own regular expressions. «