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



Description

The java.time.Matcher.pattern() method returns the pattern that is interpreted by this matcher.

Declaration

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

public Pattern pattern()

Return Value

The pattern for which this matcher was created.

Example

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

package com.tutorialspoint;

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

public class MatcherDemo {
   private static final String REGEX = "foo";
   private static final String INPUT = "fooooooooooooooooo";
   private static Pattern pattern;
   private static Matcher matcher;

   public static void main( String args[] ) {
      pattern = Pattern.compile(REGEX);
      matcher = pattern.matcher(INPUT);

      System.out.println("Current REGEX is: "+REGEX);
      System.out.println("Current INPUT is: "+INPUT);

      System.out.println("pattern(): "+matcher.pattern());
      System.out.println("matches(): "+matcher.matches());
   }
}

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

Current REGEX is: foo
Current INPUT is: fooooooooooooooooo
pattern(): foo
matches(): false
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