761 * <p> For a more precise description of the behavior of regular expression
762 * constructs, please see <a href="http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/regex3/">
763 * <i>Mastering Regular Expressions, 3nd Edition</i>, Jeffrey E. F. Friedl,
764 * O'Reilly and Associates, 2006.</a>
765 * </p>
766 *
767 * @see java.lang.String#split(String, int)
768 * @see java.lang.String#split(String)
769 *
770 * @author Mike McCloskey
771 * @author Mark Reinhold
772 * @author JSR-51 Expert Group
773 * @since 1.4
774 * @spec JSR-51
775 */
776
777 public final class Pattern
778 implements java.io.Serializable
779 {
780
781 /**
782 * Regular expression modifier values. Instead of being passed as
783 * arguments, they can also be passed as inline modifiers.
784 * For example, the following statements have the same effect.
785 * <pre>
786 * Pattern p1 = Pattern.compile("abc", Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE|Pattern.MULTILINE);
787 * Pattern p2 = Pattern.compile("(?im)abc", 0);
788 * </pre>
789 */
790
791 /**
792 * Enables Unix lines mode.
793 *
794 * <p> In this mode, only the {@code '\n'} line terminator is recognized
795 * in the behavior of {@code .}, {@code ^}, and {@code $}.
796 *
797 * <p> Unix lines mode can also be enabled via the embedded flag
798 * expression {@code (?d)}.
799 */
800 public static final int UNIX_LINES = 0x01;
801
802 /**
803 * Enables case-insensitive matching.
804 *
805 * <p> By default, case-insensitive matching assumes that only characters
806 * in the US-ASCII charset are being matched. Unicode-aware
807 * case-insensitive matching can be enabled by specifying the {@link
808 * #UNICODE_CASE} flag in conjunction with this flag.
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761 * <p> For a more precise description of the behavior of regular expression
762 * constructs, please see <a href="http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/regex3/">
763 * <i>Mastering Regular Expressions, 3nd Edition</i>, Jeffrey E. F. Friedl,
764 * O'Reilly and Associates, 2006.</a>
765 * </p>
766 *
767 * @see java.lang.String#split(String, int)
768 * @see java.lang.String#split(String)
769 *
770 * @author Mike McCloskey
771 * @author Mark Reinhold
772 * @author JSR-51 Expert Group
773 * @since 1.4
774 * @spec JSR-51
775 */
776
777 public final class Pattern
778 implements java.io.Serializable
779 {
780
781 /*
782 * Regular expression modifier values. Instead of being passed as
783 * arguments, they can also be passed as inline modifiers.
784 * For example, the following statements have the same effect.
785 *
786 * Pattern p1 = Pattern.compile("abc", Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE|Pattern.MULTILINE);
787 * Pattern p2 = Pattern.compile("(?im)abc", 0);
788 */
789
790 /**
791 * Enables Unix lines mode.
792 *
793 * <p> In this mode, only the {@code '\n'} line terminator is recognized
794 * in the behavior of {@code .}, {@code ^}, and {@code $}.
795 *
796 * <p> Unix lines mode can also be enabled via the embedded flag
797 * expression {@code (?d)}.
798 */
799 public static final int UNIX_LINES = 0x01;
800
801 /**
802 * Enables case-insensitive matching.
803 *
804 * <p> By default, case-insensitive matching assumes that only characters
805 * in the US-ASCII charset are being matched. Unicode-aware
806 * case-insensitive matching can be enabled by specifying the {@link
807 * #UNICODE_CASE} flag in conjunction with this flag.
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