tony19
named-regexp
Java

Named capture groups for Java 5/6 regular expressions

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This library backports named capture groups from Java 7 to Java 5/6.

Usage


You can use the same constructs for named capture groups from Java 7 (i.e., (?<name>patt), etc.), as in the following example:

import com.google.code.regexp.Pattern;
import com.google.code.regexp.Matcher;

public class NamedRegexpTest { public static void main(String[] args) { // pattern contains capture group, named "foo" Matcher m = Pattern.compile("(?<foo>\\w+) world").matcher("hello world!"); m.find(); System.out.println(m.group("foo")); // prints "hello" } }

Install


Gradle

implementation 'com.github.tony19:named-regexp:1.0.0'

Maven

<dependency>
  <groupId>com.github.tony19</groupId>
  <artifactId>named-regexp</artifactId>
  <version>1.0.0</version>
</dependency>

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Build


To build named-regexp from source, use Maven 2 or higher and JDK 8 or higher:

$ git clone git://github.com/tony19/named-regexp.git
$ cd named-regexp
$ mvn package

To create Java 5/6 compatible bytecode, use JDK 11 or older to build this library. The build automatically targets Java 8 (the minimum supported version) if using a newer JDK to build.

Release


To release a new production version, run the following command:

$ ./release.sh

Releases are deployed to https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/github/tony19/named-regexp/

To release a SNAPSHOT (i.e., the version in pom.xml ends with -SNAPSHOT), run the following command:

$ mvn clean deploy

Snapshots are deployed to https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/com/github/tony19/named-regexp/

License


Copyright 2024 Anthony Trinh.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

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