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Finding all words that start with an 'a' in Java
All the words that start with a can be found in a string by using regular expressions in Java. The regular expressions are character sequences that can be used to match other strings using a specific pattern syntax. The regular expressions are available in the java.util.regex package which has many classes but the most important are Pattern class and Matcher class.
A program that finds all words that start with an 'a' is using regular expressions is given as follows:
Example
import java.util.regex.Matcher; import java.util.regex.Pattern; public class Demo { public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception { String str = "This is an apple"; String regex = "\ba\w*\b"; Pattern p = Pattern.compile(regex); Matcher m = p.matcher(str); String word = null; System.out.println("The input string is: " + str); System.out.println("The Regex is: " + regex + "\r
"); System.out.println("The words that start with a in above string are:"); while (m.find()) { word = m.group(); System.out.println(word); } if (word == null) { System.out.println("There are no words that start with a"); } } }
Output
The input string is: This is an apple The Regex is: \ba\w*\b The words that start with a in above string are: an apple
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