Groovy正则表达式

Regular expressions are the Swiss Army knife of text processing. They provide the programmer the ability to match and extract patterns from strings. The simplest example of a regular expression is a string of letters and numbers. And the simplest expression involving a regular expression uses the ==~ operator. So for example to match Dan Quayle's spelling of 'potato':

"potatoe" ==~ /potatoe/


 







Regular Expression Operators

a?	matches 0 or 1 occurrence of *a*	'a' or empty string
a*	matches 0 or more occurrences of *a*	empty string or 'a', 'aa', 'aaa', etc
a+	matches 1 or more occurrences of *a*	'a', 'aa', 'aaa', etc
a|b	match *a* or *b*	'a' or 'b' -
.	match any single character	'a', 'q', 'l', '_', '+', etc
[woeirjsd]	match any of the named characters	'w', 'o', 'e', 'i', 'r', 'j', 's', 'd'
[1-9]	match any of the characters in the range	'1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9'
[^13579]	match any characters not named	even digits, or any other character
(ie)	group an expression (for use with other operators)	'ie'
^a	match an *a* at the beginning of a line	'a'
a$	match an *a* at the end of a line	'a'

There are a couple of other things you should know. If you want to use one of the operators above to

 mean the actual character, like you want to match a question mark, you need to put a '/' in front of it. 

For example:


// evaluates to true, and will for anything ending in a question mark (that doesn't have a question mark in it)
"How tall is Angelina Jolie?" ==~ /[^/?]+/?/