Regular Expressions in Java

[lucifer]

Java - it's a cool language

it must have Regular Expressions somewhere

I can't find them :(

does anyone know what classes they are in?

thanx

[atlas]

http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/dfs/java/

However, there might be better stuff now. (I don't like Java much, so I haven't used it in a while :) )

[atlas]

Yeah, it seems there a quite a few now. A little search yielded

http://javaregex.com/

which appears decent

[lucifer]

thanks atlas :)

the first one has a free licence which is good cos I want to sell the thing I'm writing - only for like $5 or something

Yeah, I don't use it much - takes to long to write - php is so much quicker - but I need to have multiple threads so I have only one choice as far as I can tell. could use C but it could crash the server if I divide by 0 or something ;)

I don't understand why they left reg exps out of the core classes :confused:

[atlas]

C++ doesn't have regex built-in either. I guess they didn't intend it as much as a text-processing type of language as perl or python.

Perl's threads are *terrible* -- java's threads are nice :)

[lucifer]

does perl have 'threads' I didn't think it did.

[atlas]

They are in the "experimental" stage. You have to add support when you're compiling perl

[gyrbo]

Can you compile perl? Where can I get a windows compiler?

[lucifer]

he means when you're installing it.

Perl's written in C++ or something I think

perl interpreter from www.activestate.com

[atlas]

Yeah, when compiling the perl interpreter on linux and unix there's an option to build in thread support

It also is possible to compile perl scripts (again, I don't use windows -- so I only know it works on linux and unix). You really don't want to do this though since it compiles in the whole interpreter into a file with your script -- so HUGE binary file :)

-mk

[lucifer]

Originally posted by atlas
it compiles in the whole interpreter into a file with your script -- so HUGE binary file :)
nice :)

[lucifer]

if anyone wants to know

FREE java regular expression classes and other fun stuff at http://www.savarese.org/oro/ :cool:

[atlas]

I'm having problems with the DNS lookup of that host, but I'll remember it for future reference.

Thanks

[lucifer]

it's OK for me (just checked0 got a whois class and everything

I like it :)