Regular Expression string format check.

[Sanj Sharma]

Hi i want to use regular expression for my application. I have some kind of string which i am reading from console and after reading i have to check the parameters of that string like e.x

YOU:ME 3,OTHERS 4,EVERYONE 5
So after reading from the console i have string "YOU:ME 3,OTHERS 4,EVERYONE 5" but now from this string i want to check the ranges for ME, OTHERS and EVERYONE (suppose iset range for ME 0-5, OTHERS 0-9 etc.) and also the pattern of the string suppose if someone enter pattern "YOU:My 3,OTHrtrERS 4,EVERYONE 5" on screen i will verify if this is the correct format of string as defined above or not.
Can anyone help me here???

[P Reen]

Hi,

have a look at http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/util/regex/Pattern.html

Also your code should look something like this

if ( Pattern.matches("YOU:ME [1-3], OTHERS [0-9], EVERYONE [0-5]",
"YOU:ME 3, OTHERS 4, EVERYONE 5"))
{
System.out.println("Matches");
}
else
{
System.out.println("Does Not Match");
}

However this will only match on the correct spacing and lettering ( CAPS )