I am having problems constructing a regex that will allow the full range of UTF-8 characters with the exception of 2 characters: '_' and '?'
So the whitelist is: ^[\u0000-\uFFFF]
and the blacklist is: ^[^_%]
I need to combine these into one expression.
I have tried the following code, but does not work the way I had hoped:
String input = "this";
Pattern p = Pattern
.compile("^[\u0000-\uFFFF]+$ | ^[^_%]");
Matcher m = p.matcher(input);
boolean result = m.matches();
System.out.println(result);
input: this
actual output: false
desired output: true
解决方案
You can use character class intersections/subtractions in Java regex to restrict a "generic" character class.
The character class [a-z&&[^aeiuo]] matches a single letter that is not a vowel. In other words: it matches a single consonant.
Use
"^[\u0000-\uFFFF&&[^_%]]+$"
to match all the Unicode characters except _ and %.
More about character class intersections/subtractions available in Java regex, see The Java™ Tutorials: Character Classes.
A test at the OCPSoft Visual Regex Tester showing there is no match when a % is added to the string:
String input = "this";
Pattern p = Pattern.compile("[\u0000-\uFFFF&&[^_%]]+"); // No anchors because `matches()` is used
Matcher m = p.matcher(input);
boolean result = m.matches();
System.out.println(result); // => true