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Validate city and state with Java Regular Expressions
In order to match the city and state using regular expression, we use the matches method in Java. The java.lang.String.matches() method returns a boolean value which depends on the matching of the String with the regular expression.
Declaration − The java.lang.String.matches() method is declared as follows −
Example
public class Example { public static void main( String[] args ) { System.out.println(city("Mumbai")); System.out.println(state("Goa")); } // validating the city public static boolean city( String c ) { return c.matches( "([a - zA - Z] + |[a - zA - Z] + \s[a - zA - Z] + )" ); } // validating the state public static boolean state( String st ) { return st.matches( "([a - zA - Z] + |[a - zA - Z] + \s[a - zA - Z] + )" ) ; } }
Output
false false
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