I need to form a regular expression in order to check the outputs of a response log. The log file will always be different based on the input. Thus, I want to create a dynamic regular expression based on the input to the function.
I may need to pass variable number of variables at a time for comparison, so how can that 'or' factor be inserted in the regex?
Is it possible to create such a regular expression in Java, and how should I go about it?
解决方案
Yes, the regex is only a string, you can concatenate your user input to constant parts and then create a pattern from it.
If you want to match the user input literally, you should use Pattern.quote("UserString") to regex escape it.
Example:
String UserInput = "Bar()";
String Prefix = "Foo";
Pattern p = Pattern.compile(Prefix + Pattern.quote(UserInput));
String s1 = "FooBar()";
String s2 = "FooBarNo";
String[] s = { s1, s2};
for (String a : s) {
Matcher m = p.matcher(a);
if (m.find())
System.out.println(a + " ==> Success");
else
System.out.println(a + " ==> Failure");
}
Output:
FooBar() ==> Success
FooBarNo ==> Failure