I'm trying to use java.util.regex in a program I'm writing. I want to remove a pattern off the front of strings like this
XXX*.blahblahblah => blahblahblah

My question is how do I remove the '.' ? This is what I've got so far

Pattern p = Pattern.compile("(?s)[Xx][Xx][Xx].*['.']");
Matcher m = p.matcher(str);

Any idea how to fix it?

12/1/2005 9:40:08 AM

use a fsm

12/1/2005 9:54:45 AM

just use a substring of every string starting at the 4th character.

12/1/2005 9:56:17 AM

that sort of defeats the purpose.. ie XXX45.blahblahblah would just become 5.blahblahblah.

12/1/2005 10:01:08 AM

does it need to be \.
?

12/1/2005 10:04:42 AM

yeah i think you can escape the . with \.

12/1/2005 10:19:00 AM

I think it may be \\\\. gonna have to test that

12/1/2005 10:22:07 AM

just string tokenize it....compare each token to the "." and once you find it, just thats where you start your substring.

12/1/2005 11:17:38 AM

oh, i definitely didnt read the question right.

if there's a variable number of characters before the '.' you can use charAt() to determine if the character at each position of the string is a '.'

once you find it, create a substring starting at the next character and go until the end of the string

12/1/2005 11:27:33 AM

yeah I was trying to avoid substrings but I think I've got it both ways now. thanks

12/1/2005 11:45:55 AM