I have patterns: a, abb, a*b+. And I need to combine them to use in a one match operation and to have information of which the pattern correspond to the input string. Can I do this by means of JDK libraries?
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I have patterns: a, abb, a*b+. And I need to combine them to use in a one match operation and to have information of which the pattern correspond to the input string. Can I do this by means of JDK libraries?
I assume you’re talking about regexes.
Just use
ors:You can tell which pattern was matched from the index of the group that matched.