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1. Finding positon of an image onscreen via image matching    stackoverflow.com

I'm currently trying to write a program in Java which will preform some macros however I need the macros to be capable of finding certain pictures located on my screen. There is ...

2. Difference between matches() and find() in Java Regex    stackoverflow.com

I am trying to understand the difference between matches() and find(). According to the Javadoc, (from what I understand), matches() will search the entire string even if it finds what it is ...

3. java regex not finding longest match    stackoverflow.com

How come java (using Matcher.find()) does not find the longest possible match?

regex = "ab*(bc)?"

4. The best way to find out that part of the string is potencial RegEx match    stackoverflow.com

how would you do this: I have a string and some regexes. Then I iterate over the string and in every iteration I need to know if the part (string index 0 ...

5. Java Regex Fails to Find a match    stackoverflow.com

This should return true, but instead returns false.

"ADC".matches("A.*?C")

System.out.println("DEAGHHF".matches("(A.*?C|C.*?A|D.*?C|C.*?D|A.*?F|F.*?A)"));

6. find the last match with java/regex/matcher    stackoverflow.com

I'm trying to get the last result of a match without having to cycle through .find() Here's my code:

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7. How to efficiently test if files with a matching filename (regex or wildcard) exists in a directory?    stackoverflow.com

I am searching for an efficient way to test if files exists which have a file-name of a certain pattern. Examples using wildcards:

• ????.*
• ???????.*
• *.png
• *.jpg

• [012]{4}.*
• [012]{7}.*

8. finding matches inside pipes using java regexp    stackoverflow.com

how do you get the contents of the string inside the pipe?

|qwe|asd|zxc|

qwe asd zxc

"\\|{1,}(\\w*)\\|{1,}"

"\\|{1,}[\\w*]\\|{1,}"

9. Regex: find all possible matches    java-forums.org

String haystack = "___a___b___c___"; for (int j = 0; j < 100; j++) { for (int i = 0; i < 100; i++) { String pattern = "^.{" + j + "}([abc]).{" + i + "}([abc])"; Pattern p = Pattern.compile(pattern); Matcher m = p.matcher(haystack); while (m.find()) { System.out.printf("%2d,%2d : %s - %s\n", j, i, m.group(1), m.group(2)); } } }

10. regExp : matches.find() returns zero    forums.oracle.com

11. Regular expression: multiple possible matches, find all?    forums.oracle.com

Hi, I'm looking over something I'm afraid, the solution to my problem will probably be simple Consider the input string "something aname bname something" I have a list of other strings that might occur in the string: "aname" "aname bname" I want to know if any of the strings in the list occurs in the input string, possibly both. For this, ...