The cvtColor() method of the Imgproc class changes/converts the color of the image from one to another. This method accepts three parameters −src − A Matrix object representing source.dst − A Matrix object representing the destination.code − An integer value representing the color of the destination image.To convert a colored ... Read More

Using the OpenCV library you can perform image processing operations such as image filtering, geometrical image transformations, color space conversion, histograms, etc.Writing an imageWhenever you read the contents of an image using the imread() method of the Imgcodecs class the result is read into the Matrix object.You can write/save an ... Read More

Using capturing groups you can treat multiple characters as a single unit. You just need to place the characters to be grouped inside a set of parentheses. For example −(.*)(\d+)(.*)If you are trying to match multiple groups the match results of each group is captured. You can get the results ... Read More

Following regular expression accepts a string with parenthesis −"^.*[\(\)].*$";^ matches the starting of the sentence..* Matches zero or more (any) characters.[\(\)] matching parenthesis.$ indicates the end of the sentence.Example 1 Live Demoimport java.util.Scanner; import java.util.regex.Matcher; import java.util.regex.Pattern; public class SampleTest {    public static void main( String args[] ) {   ... Read More

The subexpression/metacharacter "\Q" escapes all characters up to "\E" i.e. you can escape metacharacters in the regular expressions by placing them in between \Q and \E. For example, the expression [aeiou] matches the strings with vowel letters in it.Example  Live Demoimport java.util.Scanner; import java.util.regex.Matcher; import java.util.regex.Pattern; public class SampleProgram {   ... Read More

The java.util.function.UnaryOperator interface and can be used as assignment target for lambda expressions, it represents operation on a single operand whose result will be of same type as the input. We can create our own UnaryOperator by implementing this interface.The replaceAll() method of the List interface accept an object of ... Read More

The character classes in Java regular expression is defined using the square brackets "[ ]", this subexpression matches a single character from the specified or, set of possible characters. For example the regular expression [abc] matches a single character a or, b or, c.The union variant of the character class ... Read More

To match/search a input data with multiple lines −Get the input string.Split it into an array of tokens by passing "\r?" as parameter to the split method.Compile the required regular expression using the compile() method of the pattern class.Retrieve the matcher object using the matcher() method.In the for loop find ... Read More

Named capturing groups allows you to reference the groups by names. Java started supporting captured groups since SE7.Example Live Demoimport java.util.Scanner; import java.util.regex.Matcher; import java.util.regex.Pattern; public class ReplaceAll{    public static void main(String[] args) {       Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);       System.out.println("Enter input text: ");   ... Read More

Once you compile the required regular expression and retrieved the matcher object by passing the input string as a parameter to the matcher() method.You can replace all the matched parts of the input string with another str4ing using the replaceAll() method of the Matcher class.This method accepts a string (replacement ... Read More