java.util.regex.Matcher.groupCount() Method

Description

The java.time.Matcher.hasAnchoringBounds() method queries the anchoring of region bounds for this matcher.

Declaration

Following is the declaration for java.time.Matcher.hasAnchoringBounds() method.

public boolean hasAnchoringBounds()

Return Value

true if this matcher is using anchoring bounds, false otherwise.

Example

The following example shows the usage of java.time.Matcher.hasAnchoringBounds() method.

package com.tutorialspoint;

import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;

public class MatcherDemo {
   private static String REGEX = "(a*b)(foo)";
   private static String INPUT = "aabfooaabfooabfoob";
   
   public static void main(String[] args) {
      Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile(REGEX);
      
      // get a matcher object
      Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(INPUT);
      System.out.println("hasAnchoringBounds(): " + matcher.hasAnchoringBounds());
   }
}

Let us compile and run the above program, this will produce the following result −

hasAnchoringBounds(): true