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Regex for capital letters

 
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Hi,
How can I get the index of 4th capital letter in a string with using pattern and matcher ?
Actually I need the regex.
Thanks for any help.
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There are (at least) two ways for this:
1) simply look for one capital letter, then use Matcher.find() 4 times
2) use a regular expression that immediately finds the 4th capital letter. You will most likely need a capturing group for that.
 
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Thanks for the reply but as I said I need the regex
 
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In general answers are not simply handed out here--what have you come up with so far?
 
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There are all sorts of details in the Java™ Tutorials. We don't simply give answers like that; we expect you to do the work and we'll have a look at it.
 
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I have following code but i am not sure if there is a better way especially with better regex so I do not need variable i and the loop.
 
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2) use a regular expression that immediately finds the 4th capital letter. You will most likely need a capturing group for that.



Of course, as soon as I read this... I wondered if it was possible to do this without a capturing group. And thought of two ways....

1. You can use a zero length look-behind for the beginning and the first three capital letters -- then you can take the start() of the match. (look behinds are non-capturing).

2. You can do the regex that makes sures that it matches the 4th capital letter as the last part of the match, and then use end() minus one on the match.

But I agree. Using a capturing group is probably easiest.

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I am actually a bit rusty with character classes, but I think that this....



Is the same as this....



So, basically, you are trying to match a single character, that is either a capital letter or a period.

Anyway, your solution is as Rob describes...

1) simply look for one capital letter, then use Matcher.find() 4 times



You just need to get rid of the period, as you don't want to match that.

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