Re: regex bug jre6???
triVinci@gmail.com wrote:
Hello all and TIA for any and all insight...
My application reads in a regex pattern as a string from an external
source.
When the pattern contains an escaped backslash ("\\"), my existing code
works great under 1.4.2 and 1.5.
I'm simply calling...
string.matches(regex);
In jre6, the same code, processing the same regex, throws a
PatternSyntaxException complaining that "\\" is an Illegal/unexpected
escape sequence.
Is this a bug in jre6? Are there any suggestions on how to work-around
this issue?
-tv
1.6 works normally. Here's a SSCCE.
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/** content of regex.txt **
\\[newline]
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import java.io.*;
import java.util.regex.*;
public class RegX{
public static void main(String[] args){
String regex = null;
String text = "abc\\efg\\xyz\\";
try{
BufferedReader br
= new BufferedReader(new FileReader("regex.txt"));
regex = br.readLine();
}
catch (Exception e){
e.printStackTrace();
}
Pattern pat = Pattern.compile(regex);
Matcher mat = pat.matcher(text);
while (mat.find()){
System.out.println(mat.group());
}
}
}
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