Trying to assign as String variable the regular expression but Eclipse IDE doen’t allowing to do that. Why?
Trying to assign as String variable the regular expression but Eclipse IDE doen’t allowing
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Trying to assign as String variable the regular expression but Eclipse IDE doen’t allowing to do that. Why?
You have to use “
\\s” instead. This is because\sisn’t aStringescape, rather it is used in the regex. Java will see your string and change the\\into a single\(as\\is a\escaped). You will also have to do this for all of the other escapes (likepattern = "(\\s)*(\\w\\w(\\w)*)...)To make this more understandable, you know how you can put quotes in a
String(likeString s = "He said, \"Wow.\"";)? Well, you can put backslashes in aStringby escaping them like\\. Then it will send those backslashes to the regex functions/classes, which will then understand them.