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REGEX Clues, Anyone?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rael J. Dornfest)
Sun Feb 25 23:36:31 1996

Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1996 19:08:14 -0800 (PST)
From: "Rael J. Dornfest" <quark@hopf.dnai.com>
To: java-interest@java.sun.com
cc: quark@dnai.com

Hi,

I wonder if someone could help me out with a pointer to some instructions,
man pages, or enlightening source.  I do most of my work in Perl5 and have
been leary of delving into regular expressions in Java.

How, for example would you check for a valid DATE entry?

ie.   $true = m#^\\(?\\d{3}\\)?[-\. ]\\d{3}[-\. ]\\d{4}$#;

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Rael
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