Category: java
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Unicode block names in regular expressions
Frequently, I find myself wanting to do some simple language detection. For Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, this can easily be done by looking at the types of characters in some text. The simplest and most robust way to do this is to use Unicode block names. It is very simple to write a regular expression…
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Java anchored regex
I just discovered this today when doing some regex in Java. When I first started doing regex in Java, I was surprised to learn that Java seems to treat all regular expressions as anchored. That is, if you have a string foobar and search for “foo” it will not match. This is different than grep,…