Re: Regular Expression

Ken Kast wrote:
Here's a code snippet:
pattern = "\\b[A-Z]([A-Z0-9]|([+-_/&](?=[A-Z0-9])))+\\b";

p = Pattern.compile(pattern);

p finds a match on F1.3 . For the life of me I can't understand how the
period is being sucked through. It seems to me it ought find F1 . Can
someone explain to me what's happening?

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Thanks.


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