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1. Java library for detecting list items on webpages    stackoverflow.com

Most of the webpages now-a-days contain lists of things, or chunks of html patterns that repeat a lot. For example:

1. Facebook status messages on homepages.
2. Digg/Hacker News
3. StackOverflow homepage

2. How does this Java regex detect palindromes?    stackoverflow.com

This is the third part in a series of educational regex articles. It follows How does this regex find triangular numbers? (where nested references is first introduced) and ...

3. what is Regular expression for detecting a for loop and while loop in Java code    stackoverflow.com

What is regular expression for detecting a for loo and another one for detecting while loop. want to detect for(--;--;--) and while (--comparison operator --) constructs.

4. Vowel ending detection via regex    stackoverflow.com

With regular expressions, how can I test just the last characters of the given string for a match? I want to check if something ends in any of the following:

vowel+consonant ("like 'ur' ...

5. Detecting Assignment    stackoverflow.com

I'm trying to write a regex to detect assignment in a script (=), when it should be equality (==). I have the following in Java:

Pattern p = Pattern.compile("[^=]=[^=]");

p.matcher("a=b").matches();

6. Way to detect if String content is a DateTime - RegExp?    stackoverflow.com

Possible Duplicate:
generically parsing String to date

7. Java - Detect Non-Matching String    stackoverflow.com

I am trying to figure out how to take a comma-separated string as input and detect if there are any strings inside it that do not match the following set {FF,SF,FB,SB,Pause} So as ...

8. regex to detect slashes    coderanch.com

http://www.regular-expressions.info/java.html In literal Java strings the backslash is an escape character. The literal string "\\" is a single backslash. In regular expressions, the backslash is also an escape character. The regular expression \\ matches a single backslash. This regular expression as a Java string, becomes "\\\\". That's right: 4 backslashes to match a single one.

9. Regular Expression for Detecting Emoticons    coderanch.com

That's indeed not such a good regex ;) It says "any character any number of times" followed by a : or ) (because the [] denote a character class, or a choice of characters) or a : or D, followed again by any character any number of times. The regular expression needed is simple in this case: - a :. Use ...

10. Regex for comma detection    forums.oracle.com