【Java正则表达式系列】4. Character Classes

1. Character Classes为何物?

如果你阅读Pattern类的定义，你将会看到里面有一个表格总结了Pattern类所支持的正则表达式构造类型，下面是从中截取的。

Construct	Description	翻译
[abc]	a, b, or c (simple class)	a, b或c (简单类型)
[^abc]	Any character except a, b, or c (negation)	处理a, b和c之外任意字符 (否定)
[a-zA-Z]	a through z, or A through Z, inclusive (range)	a ~ z 或者A~Z中字符 (范围)
[a-d[m-p]]	a through d, or m through p: [a-dm-p] (union)	a ~d或者m ~p (联合)
[a-z&&[def]]	d, e, or f (intersection)	a~z范围而且要么是d,要么e，要么f,所以综合下来只能是d,e和f (交集)
[a-z&&[^bc]]	a through z, except for b and c: [ad-z] (subtraction)	a ~ z而且不能为b或c (差集)
[a-z&&[^m-p]]	a through z, and not m through p: [a-lq-z] (subtraction)	a ~ z而且不能为m~p之间的字符 (差集)

classes的理解，这里的classes不要同java语言里面的类进行混淆，这个classes是正则表达式语义下的， character classess是用中括号包含着的字符串,这些字符串被用来和带匹配字符串中的字符进行比较。

下面我们将分别实验这六种类型:

2 实验

2.1 simple classes(简单类型)

2.2 negation

2.3 Ranges

2.4 Unions

2.5 Intersections

2.6 Subtraction

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