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Pattern/Matcher - how to use "and" statement?

 
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Hi Guys,

I'm trying to write a pattern where a line should begin with a digit AND end with a digit. The problem that I face is that both conditions should occur together (starts with and ends with).

Can any one point how this should work? for code simplicity I need to write one pattern (not to use startsWith or endsWith)


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If you are going to work with regular expressions you need to spend some time here - http://www.regular-expressions.info/ .

If you are going to use Matcher.matches() then there is no need for the '^' or the '$' since they are implicit when using matches() and all you need is -

 
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I'd change that into "\\d(.*\\d)?", to also allow lines with only one single digit. Those too meet the requirements of both starting and ending with a digit - they just happen to be the same.
 
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thank you both! it works.
 
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You're welcome.
 
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