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splat YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 24	Using regular expressions in processing. Oct 26th, 2005, 6:37pm   I was surprised to find little info on how to use regular expressions in Processing, so I wanted to post about the java core library for using them aka: import java.util.regex.*; This opens up a few regular expression options, including the all important: myString.replaceAll(); Hope this saves someone a few minutes! Cheers.

st33d God Member Offline Posts: 666

Re: Using regular expressions in processing. Reply #1 - Oct 26th, 2005, 10:17pm   Magic. Top post! Regular expressions are invaluable when it comes to Strings. Found some information: http://www.regular-expressions.info/java.html And to get people going, here's a simple bit of RegEx usage that identifies if a string is a valid email address format: Code: import java.util.regex.*; String notEmail = "blahAtblah.com"; String myEmail = "st3ed@hotmail.com"; String check4EmailRegEx = "^[_a-z0-9-]+(\\.[_a-z0-9-]+)*@[a-z0-9-]+(\\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\\.[a-z]{2,3})$"; void setup(){ println(notEmail.matches(check4EmailRegEx)); println(myEmail.matches(check4EmailRegEx)); }

fry YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 2623 mass, usa	Re: Using regular expressions in processing. Reply #2 - Oct 30th, 2005, 1:42am   also note that this isn't supported in java 1.1, for what it's worth. p5 requires java 1.3 for now, but 1.1-only support will be coming back...