Java’s character and assorted string classes offer low-level support for pattern matching, but that support typically leads to complex code. For simpler and more efficient coding, Java offers ...

Before looking at how Groovy improves on the handling of the regular expression, I round out the Java example that was started above to also include an example of Java’s Matcher class in action ...

Remove parameters using regular expressions. The other option to remove parameters in Java or Python is to use a regular expression to delete the matching portion of the input string. This method is ...

Gruber’s single-line version of the regex pattern can be pasted in Editorial’s If action with no modifications; inside the If block, the text in the clipboard is passed to a Find action that extracts ...