Anant Athale is a senior software engineer at Motorola Labs. He specializes in enterprise Java technologies and is an active participant in the Java Community Process (JSR 262,260). He is Sun certified and has a masters degree from Arizona State University.
Pattern matching using 'regular expressions' can help automate a number of text-processing operations like search and replace, input validation, text conversion, and filters. What otherwise requires significant amounts of code can be done in just a few lines with regular expressions be...Apr. 7, 2005 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 52,744 Replies: 2
