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Use a character class in Java Regular Expressions
A character class is set of characters that are enclosed inside square brackets. The characters in a character class specify the characters that can match with a character in an input string for success. An example of a character class is [a-z] which denotes the alphabets a to z.
A program that demonstrates a character class in Java Regular Expressions is given as follows:
Example
import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;
public class Demo {
public static void main(String args[]) {
Pattern p = Pattern.compile("[a-z]+");
Matcher m = p.matcher("the sky is blue");
System.out.println("The input string is: the sky is blue");
System.out.println("The Regex is: [a-z]+");
System.out.println();
while (m.find()) {
System.out.println("Match: " + m.group());
}
}
}Output
The input string is: the sky is blue The Regex is: [a-z]+ Match: the Match: sky Match: is Match: blue
Now let us understand the above program.
The subsequence “[a-z]+” is searched in the string sequence "the sky is blue". Here a character class is used i.e. [a-z] which denotes the alphabets a to z. The find() method is used to find if the subsequence is in the input sequence and the required result is printed. A code snippet which demonstrates this is as follows:
Pattern p = Pattern.compile("[a-z]+");
Matcher m = p.matcher("the sky is blue");
System.out.println("The input string is: the sky is blue");
System.out.println("The Regex is: [a-z]+");
System.out.println();
while (m.find()) {
System.out.println("Match: " + m.group());
}
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