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26
27package java.util.regex;
28
29import libcore.util.NativeAllocationRegistry;
30
31import java.util.Iterator;
32import java.util.ArrayList;
33import java.util.NoSuchElementException;
34import java.util.Spliterator;
35import java.util.Spliterators;
36import java.util.function.Predicate;
37import java.util.stream.Stream;
38import java.util.stream.StreamSupport;
39
40
41/**
42 * A compiled representation of a regular expression.
43 *
44 * <p> A regular expression, specified as a string, must first be compiled into
45 * an instance of this class.  The resulting pattern can then be used to create
46 * a {@link Matcher} object that can match arbitrary {@link
47 * java.lang.CharSequence </code>character sequences<code>} against the regular
48 * expression.  All of the state involved in performing a match resides in the
49 * matcher, so many matchers can share the same pattern.
50 *
51 * <p> A typical invocation sequence is thus
52 *
53 * <blockquote><pre>
54 * Pattern p = Pattern.{@link #compile compile}("a*b");
55 * Matcher m = p.{@link #matcher matcher}("aaaaab");
56 * boolean b = m.{@link Matcher#matches matches}();</pre></blockquote>
57 *
58 * <p> A {@link #matches matches} method is defined by this class as a
59 * convenience for when a regular expression is used just once.  This method
60 * compiles an expression and matches an input sequence against it in a single
61 * invocation.  The statement
62 *
63 * <blockquote><pre>
64 * boolean b = Pattern.matches("a*b", "aaaaab");</pre></blockquote>
65 *
66 * is equivalent to the three statements above, though for repeated matches it
67 * is less efficient since it does not allow the compiled pattern to be reused.
68 *
69 * <p> Instances of this class are immutable and are safe for use by multiple
70 * concurrent threads.  Instances of the {@link Matcher} class are not safe for
71 * such use.
72 *
73 *
74 * <a name="sum">
75 * <h4> Summary of regular-expression constructs </h4>
76 *
77 * <table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0"
78 *  summary="Regular expression constructs, and what they match">
79 *
80 * <tr align="left">
81 * <th bgcolor="#CCCCFF" align="left" id="construct">Construct</th>
82 * <th bgcolor="#CCCCFF" align="left" id="matches">Matches</th>
83 * </tr>
84 *
85 * <tr><th>&nbsp;</th></tr>
86 * <tr align="left"><th colspan="2" id="characters">Characters</th></tr>
87 *
88 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct characters"><i>x</i></td>
89 *     <td headers="matches">The character <i>x</i></td></tr>
90 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct characters"><tt>\\</tt></td>
91 *     <td headers="matches">The backslash character</td></tr>
92 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct characters"><tt>\0</tt><i>n</i></td>
93 *     <td headers="matches">The character with octal value <tt>0</tt><i>n</i>
94 *         (0&nbsp;<tt>&lt;=</tt>&nbsp;<i>n</i>&nbsp;<tt>&lt;=</tt>&nbsp;7)</td></tr>
95 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct characters"><tt>\0</tt><i>nn</i></td>
96 *     <td headers="matches">The character with octal value <tt>0</tt><i>nn</i>
97 *         (0&nbsp;<tt>&lt;=</tt>&nbsp;<i>n</i>&nbsp;<tt>&lt;=</tt>&nbsp;7)</td></tr>
98 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct characters"><tt>\0</tt><i>mnn</i></td>
99 *     <td headers="matches">The character with octal value <tt>0</tt><i>mnn</i>
100 *         (0&nbsp;<tt>&lt;=</tt>&nbsp;<i>m</i>&nbsp;<tt>&lt;=</tt>&nbsp;3,
101 *         0&nbsp;<tt>&lt;=</tt>&nbsp;<i>n</i>&nbsp;<tt>&lt;=</tt>&nbsp;7)</td></tr>
102 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct characters"><tt>\x</tt><i>hh</i></td>
103 *     <td headers="matches">The character with hexadecimal&nbsp;value&nbsp;<tt>0x</tt><i>hh</i></td></tr>
104 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct characters"><tt>&#92;u</tt><i>hhhh</i></td>
105 *     <td headers="matches">The character with hexadecimal&nbsp;value&nbsp;<tt>0x</tt><i>hhhh</i></td></tr>
106 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct characters"><tt>&#92;x</tt><i>{h...h}</i></td>
107 *     <td headers="matches">The character with hexadecimal&nbsp;value&nbsp;<tt>0x</tt><i>h...h</i>
108 *         ({@link java.lang.Character#MIN_CODE_POINT Character.MIN_CODE_POINT}
109 *         &nbsp;&lt;=&nbsp;<tt>0x</tt><i>h...h</i>&nbsp;&lt;=&nbsp
110 *          {@link java.lang.Character#MAX_CODE_POINT Character.MAX_CODE_POINT})</td></tr>
111 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="matches"><tt>\t</tt></td>
112 *     <td headers="matches">The tab character (<tt>'&#92;u0009'</tt>)</td></tr>
113 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct characters"><tt>\n</tt></td>
114 *     <td headers="matches">The newline (line feed) character (<tt>'&#92;u000A'</tt>)</td></tr>
115 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct characters"><tt>\r</tt></td>
116 *     <td headers="matches">The carriage-return character (<tt>'&#92;u000D'</tt>)</td></tr>
117 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct characters"><tt>\f</tt></td>
118 *     <td headers="matches">The form-feed character (<tt>'&#92;u000C'</tt>)</td></tr>
119 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct characters"><tt>\a</tt></td>
120 *     <td headers="matches">The alert (bell) character (<tt>'&#92;u0007'</tt>)</td></tr>
121 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct characters"><tt>\e</tt></td>
122 *     <td headers="matches">The escape character (<tt>'&#92;u001B'</tt>)</td></tr>
123 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct characters"><tt>\c</tt><i>x</i></td>
124 *     <td headers="matches">The control character corresponding to <i>x</i></td></tr>
125 *
126 * <tr><th>&nbsp;</th></tr>
127 * <tr align="left"><th colspan="2" id="classes">Character classes</th></tr>
128 *
129 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct classes"><tt>[abc]</tt></td>
130 *     <td headers="matches"><tt>a</tt>, <tt>b</tt>, or <tt>c</tt> (simple class)</td></tr>
131 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct classes"><tt>[^abc]</tt></td>
132 *     <td headers="matches">Any character except <tt>a</tt>, <tt>b</tt>, or <tt>c</tt> (negation)</td></tr>
133 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct classes"><tt>[a-zA-Z]</tt></td>
134 *     <td headers="matches"><tt>a</tt> through <tt>z</tt>
135 *         or <tt>A</tt> through <tt>Z</tt>, inclusive (range)</td></tr>
136 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct classes"><tt>[a-d[m-p]]</tt></td>
137 *     <td headers="matches"><tt>a</tt> through <tt>d</tt>,
138 *      or <tt>m</tt> through <tt>p</tt>: <tt>[a-dm-p]</tt> (union)</td></tr>
139 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct classes"><tt>[a-z&&[def]]</tt></td>
140 *     <td headers="matches"><tt>d</tt>, <tt>e</tt>, or <tt>f</tt> (intersection)</tr>
141 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct classes"><tt>[a-z&&[^bc]]</tt></td>
142 *     <td headers="matches"><tt>a</tt> through <tt>z</tt>,
143 *         except for <tt>b</tt> and <tt>c</tt>: <tt>[ad-z]</tt> (subtraction)</td></tr>
144 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct classes"><tt>[a-z&&[^m-p]]</tt></td>
145 *     <td headers="matches"><tt>a</tt> through <tt>z</tt>,
146 *          and not <tt>m</tt> through <tt>p</tt>: <tt>[a-lq-z]</tt>(subtraction)</td></tr>
147 * <tr><th>&nbsp;</th></tr>
148 *
149 * <tr align="left"><th colspan="2" id="predef">Predefined character classes</th></tr>
150 *
151 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct predef"><tt>.</tt></td>
152 *     <td headers="matches">Any character (may or may not match <a href="#lt">line terminators</a>)</td></tr>
153 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct predef"><tt>\d</tt></td>
154 *     <td headers="matches">A digit: <tt>[0-9]</tt></td></tr>
155 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct predef"><tt>\D</tt></td>
156 *     <td headers="matches">A non-digit: <tt>[^0-9]</tt></td></tr>
157 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct predef"><tt>\s</tt></td>
158 *     <td headers="matches">A whitespace character: <tt>[ \t\n\x0B\f\r]</tt></td></tr>
159 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct predef"><tt>\S</tt></td>
160 *     <td headers="matches">A non-whitespace character: <tt>[^\s]</tt></td></tr>
161 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct predef"><tt>\w</tt></td>
162 *     <td headers="matches">A word character: <tt>[a-zA-Z_0-9]</tt></td></tr>
163 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct predef"><tt>\W</tt></td>
164 *     <td headers="matches">A non-word character: <tt>[^\w]</tt></td></tr>
165 *
166 * <tr><th>&nbsp;</th></tr>
167 * <tr align="left"><th colspan="2" id="posix">POSIX character classes</b> (US-ASCII only)<b></th></tr>
168 *
169 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct posix"><tt>\p{Lower}</tt></td>
170 *     <td headers="matches">A lower-case alphabetic character: <tt>[a-z]</tt></td></tr>
171 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct posix"><tt>\p{Upper}</tt></td>
172 *     <td headers="matches">An upper-case alphabetic character:<tt>[A-Z]</tt></td></tr>
173 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct posix"><tt>\p{ASCII}</tt></td>
174 *     <td headers="matches">All ASCII:<tt>[\x00-\x7F]</tt></td></tr>
175 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct posix"><tt>\p{Alpha}</tt></td>
176 *     <td headers="matches">An alphabetic character:<tt>[\p{Lower}\p{Upper}]</tt></td></tr>
177 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct posix"><tt>\p{Digit}</tt></td>
178 *     <td headers="matches">A decimal digit: <tt>[0-9]</tt></td></tr>
179 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct posix"><tt>\p{Alnum}</tt></td>
180 *     <td headers="matches">An alphanumeric character:<tt>[\p{Alpha}\p{Digit}]</tt></td></tr>
181 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct posix"><tt>\p{Punct}</tt></td>
182 *     <td headers="matches">Punctuation: One of <tt>!"#$%&'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\]^_`{|}~</tt></td></tr>
183 *     <!-- <tt>[\!"#\$%&'\(\)\*\+,\-\./:;\<=\>\?@\[\\\]\^_`\{\|\}~]</tt>
184 *          <tt>[\X21-\X2F\X31-\X40\X5B-\X60\X7B-\X7E]</tt> -->
185 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct posix"><tt>\p{Graph}</tt></td>
186 *     <td headers="matches">A visible character: <tt>[\p{Alnum}\p{Punct}]</tt></td></tr>
187 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct posix"><tt>\p{Print}</tt></td>
188 *     <td headers="matches">A printable character: <tt>[\p{Graph}\x20]</tt></td></tr>
189 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct posix"><tt>\p{Blank}</tt></td>
190 *     <td headers="matches">A space or a tab: <tt>[ \t]</tt></td></tr>
191 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct posix"><tt>\p{Cntrl}</tt></td>
192 *     <td headers="matches">A control character: <tt>[\x00-\x1F\x7F]</tt></td></tr>
193 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct posix"><tt>\p{XDigit}</tt></td>
194 *     <td headers="matches">A hexadecimal digit: <tt>[0-9a-fA-F]</tt></td></tr>
195 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct posix"><tt>\p{Space}</tt></td>
196 *     <td headers="matches">A whitespace character: <tt>[ \t\n\x0B\f\r]</tt></td></tr>
197 *
198 * <tr><th>&nbsp;</th></tr>
199 * <tr align="left"><th colspan="2">java.lang.Character classes (simple <a href="#jcc">java character type</a>)</th></tr>
200 *
201 * <tr><td valign="top"><tt>\p{javaLowerCase}</tt></td>
202 *     <td>Equivalent to java.lang.Character.isLowerCase()</td></tr>
203 * <tr><td valign="top"><tt>\p{javaUpperCase}</tt></td>
204 *     <td>Equivalent to java.lang.Character.isUpperCase()</td></tr>
205 * <tr><td valign="top"><tt>\p{javaWhitespace}</tt></td>
206 *     <td>Equivalent to java.lang.Character.isWhitespace()</td></tr>
207 * <tr><td valign="top"><tt>\p{javaMirrored}</tt></td>
208 *     <td>Equivalent to java.lang.Character.isMirrored()</td></tr>
209 *
210 * <tr><th>&nbsp;</th></tr>
211 * <tr align="left"><th colspan="2" id="unicode">Classes for Unicode scripts, blocks, categories and binary properties</th></tr>
212 * * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct unicode"><tt>\p{IsLatin}</tt></td>
213 *     <td headers="matches">A Latin&nbsp;script character (<a href="#usc">script</a>)</td></tr>
214 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct unicode"><tt>\p{InGreek}</tt></td>
215 *     <td headers="matches">A character in the Greek&nbsp;block (<a href="#ubc">block</a>)</td></tr>
216 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct unicode"><tt>\p{Lu}</tt></td>
217 *     <td headers="matches">An uppercase letter (<a href="#ucc">category</a>)</td></tr>
218 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct unicode"><tt>\p{IsAlphabetic}</tt></td>
219 *     <td headers="matches">An alphabetic character (<a href="#ubpc">binary property</a>)</td></tr>
220 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct unicode"><tt>\p{Sc}</tt></td>
221 *     <td headers="matches">A currency symbol</td></tr>
222 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct unicode"><tt>\P{InGreek}</tt></td>
223 *     <td headers="matches">Any character except one in the Greek block (negation)</td></tr>
224 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct unicode"><tt>[\p{L}&&[^\p{Lu}]]&nbsp;</tt></td>
225 *     <td headers="matches">Any letter except an uppercase letter (subtraction)</td></tr>
226 *
227 * <tr><th>&nbsp;</th></tr>
228 * <tr align="left"><th colspan="2" id="bounds">Boundary matchers</th></tr>
229 *
230 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct bounds"><tt>^</tt></td>
231 *     <td headers="matches">The beginning of a line</td></tr>
232 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct bounds"><tt>$</tt></td>
233 *     <td headers="matches">The end of a line</td></tr>
234 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct bounds"><tt>\b</tt></td>
235 *     <td headers="matches">A word boundary</td></tr>
236 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct bounds"><tt>\B</tt></td>
237 *     <td headers="matches">A non-word boundary</td></tr>
238 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct bounds"><tt>\A</tt></td>
239 *     <td headers="matches">The beginning of the input</td></tr>
240 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct bounds"><tt>\G</tt></td>
241 *     <td headers="matches">The end of the previous match</td></tr>
242 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct bounds"><tt>\Z</tt></td>
243 *     <td headers="matches">The end of the input but for the final
244 *         <a href="#lt">terminator</a>, if&nbsp;any</td></tr>
245 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct bounds"><tt>\z</tt></td>
246 *     <td headers="matches">The end of the input</td></tr>
247 *
248 * <tr><th>&nbsp;</th></tr>
249 * <tr align="left"><th colspan="2" id="greedy">Greedy quantifiers</th></tr>
250 *
251 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct greedy"><i>X</i><tt>?</tt></td>
252 *     <td headers="matches"><i>X</i>, once or not at all</td></tr>
253 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct greedy"><i>X</i><tt>*</tt></td>
254 *     <td headers="matches"><i>X</i>, zero or more times</td></tr>
255 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct greedy"><i>X</i><tt>+</tt></td>
256 *     <td headers="matches"><i>X</i>, one or more times</td></tr>
257 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct greedy"><i>X</i><tt>{</tt><i>n</i><tt>}</tt></td>
258 *     <td headers="matches"><i>X</i>, exactly <i>n</i> times</td></tr>
259 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct greedy"><i>X</i><tt>{</tt><i>n</i><tt>,}</tt></td>
260 *     <td headers="matches"><i>X</i>, at least <i>n</i> times</td></tr>
261 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct greedy"><i>X</i><tt>{</tt><i>n</i><tt>,</tt><i>m</i><tt>}</tt></td>
262 *     <td headers="matches"><i>X</i>, at least <i>n</i> but not more than <i>m</i> times</td></tr>
263 *
264 * <tr><th>&nbsp;</th></tr>
265 * <tr align="left"><th colspan="2" id="reluc">Reluctant quantifiers</th></tr>
266 *
267 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct reluc"><i>X</i><tt>??</tt></td>
268 *     <td headers="matches"><i>X</i>, once or not at all</td></tr>
269 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct reluc"><i>X</i><tt>*?</tt></td>
270 *     <td headers="matches"><i>X</i>, zero or more times</td></tr>
271 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct reluc"><i>X</i><tt>+?</tt></td>
272 *     <td headers="matches"><i>X</i>, one or more times</td></tr>
273 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct reluc"><i>X</i><tt>{</tt><i>n</i><tt>}?</tt></td>
274 *     <td headers="matches"><i>X</i>, exactly <i>n</i> times</td></tr>
275 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct reluc"><i>X</i><tt>{</tt><i>n</i><tt>,}?</tt></td>
276 *     <td headers="matches"><i>X</i>, at least <i>n</i> times</td></tr>
277 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct reluc"><i>X</i><tt>{</tt><i>n</i><tt>,</tt><i>m</i><tt>}?</tt></td>
278 *     <td headers="matches"><i>X</i>, at least <i>n</i> but not more than <i>m</i> times</td></tr>
279 *
280 * <tr><th>&nbsp;</th></tr>
281 * <tr align="left"><th colspan="2" id="poss">Possessive quantifiers</th></tr>
282 *
283 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct poss"><i>X</i><tt>?+</tt></td>
284 *     <td headers="matches"><i>X</i>, once or not at all</td></tr>
285 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct poss"><i>X</i><tt>*+</tt></td>
286 *     <td headers="matches"><i>X</i>, zero or more times</td></tr>
287 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct poss"><i>X</i><tt>++</tt></td>
288 *     <td headers="matches"><i>X</i>, one or more times</td></tr>
289 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct poss"><i>X</i><tt>{</tt><i>n</i><tt>}+</tt></td>
290 *     <td headers="matches"><i>X</i>, exactly <i>n</i> times</td></tr>
291 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct poss"><i>X</i><tt>{</tt><i>n</i><tt>,}+</tt></td>
292 *     <td headers="matches"><i>X</i>, at least <i>n</i> times</td></tr>
293 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct poss"><i>X</i><tt>{</tt><i>n</i><tt>,</tt><i>m</i><tt>}+</tt></td>
294 *     <td headers="matches"><i>X</i>, at least <i>n</i> but not more than <i>m</i> times</td></tr>
295 *
296 * <tr><th>&nbsp;</th></tr>
297 * <tr align="left"><th colspan="2" id="logical">Logical operators</th></tr>
298 *
299 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct logical"><i>XY</i></td>
300 *     <td headers="matches"><i>X</i> followed by <i>Y</i></td></tr>
301 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct logical"><i>X</i><tt>|</tt><i>Y</i></td>
302 *     <td headers="matches">Either <i>X</i> or <i>Y</i></td></tr>
303 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct logical"><tt>(</tt><i>X</i><tt>)</tt></td>
304 *     <td headers="matches">X, as a <a href="#cg">capturing group</a></td></tr>
305 *
306 * <tr><th>&nbsp;</th></tr>
307 * <tr align="left"><th colspan="2" id="backref">Back references</th></tr>
308 *
309 * <tr><td valign="bottom" headers="construct backref"><tt>\</tt><i>n</i></td>
310 *     <td valign="bottom" headers="matches">Whatever the <i>n</i><sup>th</sup>
311 *     <a href="#cg">capturing group</a> matched</td></tr>
312 *
313 * <tr><td valign="bottom" headers="construct backref"><tt>\</tt><i>k</i>&lt;<i>name</i>&gt;</td>
314 *     <td valign="bottom" headers="matches">Whatever the
315 *     <a href="#groupname">named-capturing group</a> "name" matched</td></tr>
316 *
317 * <tr><th>&nbsp;</th></tr>
318 * <tr align="left"><th colspan="2" id="quot">Quotation</th></tr>
319 *
320 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct quot"><tt>\</tt></td>
321 *     <td headers="matches">Nothing, but quotes the following character</td></tr>
322 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct quot"><tt>\Q</tt></td>
323 *     <td headers="matches">Nothing, but quotes all characters until <tt>\E</tt></td></tr>
324 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct quot"><tt>\E</tt></td>
325 *     <td headers="matches">Nothing, but ends quoting started by <tt>\Q</tt></td></tr>
326 *     <!-- Metachars: !$()*+.<>?[\]^{|} -->
327 *
328 * <tr><th>&nbsp;</th></tr>
329 * <tr align="left"><th colspan="2" id="special">Special constructs (named-capturing and non-capturing)</th></tr>
330 *
331 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct special"><tt>(?&lt;<a href="#groupname">name</a>&gt;</tt><i>X</i><tt>)</tt></td>
332 *     <td headers="matches"><i>X</i>, as a named-capturing group</td></tr>
333 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct special"><tt>(?:</tt><i>X</i><tt>)</tt></td>
334 *     <td headers="matches"><i>X</i>, as a non-capturing group</td></tr>
335 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct special"><tt>(?idmsuxU-idmsuxU)&nbsp;</tt></td>
336 *     <td headers="matches">Nothing, but turns match flags <a href="#CASE_INSENSITIVE">i</a>
337 * <a href="#UNIX_LINES">d</a> <a href="#MULTILINE">m</a> <a href="#DOTALL">s</a>
338 * <a href="#UNICODE_CASE">u</a> <a href="#COMMENTS">x</a> <a href="#UNICODE_CHARACTER_CLASS">U</a>
339 * on - off</td></tr>
340 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct special"><tt>(?idmsux-idmsux:</tt><i>X</i><tt>)</tt>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
341 *     <td headers="matches"><i>X</i>, as a <a href="#cg">non-capturing group</a> with the
342 *         given flags <a href="#CASE_INSENSITIVE">i</a> <a href="#UNIX_LINES">d</a>
343 * <a href="#MULTILINE">m</a> <a href="#DOTALL">s</a> <a href="#UNICODE_CASE">u</a >
344 * <a href="#COMMENTS">x</a> on - off</td></tr>
345 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct special"><tt>(?=</tt><i>X</i><tt>)</tt></td>
346 *     <td headers="matches"><i>X</i>, via zero-width positive lookahead</td></tr>
347 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct special"><tt>(?!</tt><i>X</i><tt>)</tt></td>
348 *     <td headers="matches"><i>X</i>, via zero-width negative lookahead</td></tr>
349 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct special"><tt>(?&lt;=</tt><i>X</i><tt>)</tt></td>
350 *     <td headers="matches"><i>X</i>, via zero-width positive lookbehind</td></tr>
351 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct special"><tt>(?&lt;!</tt><i>X</i><tt>)</tt></td>
352 *     <td headers="matches"><i>X</i>, via zero-width negative lookbehind</td></tr>
353 * <tr><td valign="top" headers="construct special"><tt>(?&gt;</tt><i>X</i><tt>)</tt></td>
354 *     <td headers="matches"><i>X</i>, as an independent, non-capturing group</td></tr>
355 *
356 * </table>
357 *
358 * <hr>
359 *
360 *
361 * <a name="bs">
362 * <h4> Backslashes, escapes, and quoting </h4>
363 *
364 * <p> The backslash character (<tt>'\'</tt>) serves to introduce escaped
365 * constructs, as defined in the table above, as well as to quote characters
366 * that otherwise would be interpreted as unescaped constructs.  Thus the
367 * expression <tt>\\</tt> matches a single backslash and <tt>\{</tt> matches a
368 * left brace.
369 *
370 * <p> It is an error to use a backslash prior to any alphabetic character that
371 * does not denote an escaped construct; these are reserved for future
372 * extensions to the regular-expression language.  A backslash may be used
373 * prior to a non-alphabetic character regardless of whether that character is
374 * part of an unescaped construct.
375 *
376 * <p> Backslashes within string literals in Java source code are interpreted
377 * as required by
378 * <cite>The Java&trade; Language Specification</cite>
379 * as either Unicode escapes (section 3.3) or other character escapes (section 3.10.6)
380 * It is therefore necessary to double backslashes in string
381 * literals that represent regular expressions to protect them from
382 * interpretation by the Java bytecode compiler.  The string literal
383 * <tt>"&#92;b"</tt>, for example, matches a single backspace character when
384 * interpreted as a regular expression, while <tt>"&#92;&#92;b"</tt> matches a
385 * word boundary.  The string literal <tt>"&#92;(hello&#92;)"</tt> is illegal
386 * and leads to a compile-time error; in order to match the string
387 * <tt>(hello)</tt> the string literal <tt>"&#92;&#92;(hello&#92;&#92;)"</tt>
388 * must be used.
389 *
390 * <a name="cc">
391 * <h4> Character Classes </h4>
392 *
393 *    <p> Character classes may appear within other character classes, and
394 *    may be composed by the union operator (implicit) and the intersection
395 *    operator (<tt>&amp;&amp;</tt>).
396 *    The union operator denotes a class that contains every character that is
397 *    in at least one of its operand classes.  The intersection operator
398 *    denotes a class that contains every character that is in both of its
399 *    operand classes.
400 *
401 *    <p> The precedence of character-class operators is as follows, from
402 *    highest to lowest:
403 *
404 *    <blockquote><table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0"
405 *                 summary="Precedence of character class operators.">
406 *      <tr><th>1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</th>
407 *        <td>Literal escape&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
408 *        <td><tt>\x</tt></td></tr>
409 *     <tr><th>2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</th>
410 *        <td>Grouping</td>
411 *        <td><tt>[...]</tt></td></tr>
412 *     <tr><th>3&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</th>
413 *        <td>Range</td>
414 *        <td><tt>a-z</tt></td></tr>
415 *      <tr><th>4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</th>
416 *        <td>Union</td>
417 *        <td><tt>[a-e][i-u]</tt></td></tr>
418 *      <tr><th>5&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</th>
419 *        <td>Intersection</td>
420 *        <td><tt>[a-z&&[aeiou]]</tt></td></tr>
421 *    </table></blockquote>
422 *
423 *    <p> Note that a different set of metacharacters are in effect inside
424 *    a character class than outside a character class. For instance, the
425 *    regular expression <tt>.</tt> loses its special meaning inside a
426 *    character class, while the expression <tt>-</tt> becomes a range
427 *    forming metacharacter.
428 *
429 * <a name="lt">
430 * <h4> Line terminators </h4>
431 *
432 * <p> A <i>line terminator</i> is a one- or two-character sequence that marks
433 * the end of a line of the input character sequence.  The following are
434 * recognized as line terminators:
435 *
436 * <ul>
437 *
438 *   <li> A newline (line feed) character&nbsp;(<tt>'\n'</tt>),
439 *
440 *   <li> A carriage-return character followed immediately by a newline
441 *   character&nbsp;(<tt>"\r\n"</tt>),
442 *
443 *   <li> A standalone carriage-return character&nbsp;(<tt>'\r'</tt>),
444 *
445 *   <li> A next-line character&nbsp;(<tt>'&#92;u0085'</tt>),
446 *
447 *   <li> A line-separator character&nbsp;(<tt>'&#92;u2028'</tt>), or
448 *
449 *   <li> A paragraph-separator character&nbsp;(<tt>'&#92;u2029</tt>).
450 *
451 * </ul>
452 * <p>If {@link #UNIX_LINES} mode is activated, then the only line terminators
453 * recognized are newline characters.
454 *
455 * <p> The regular expression <tt>.</tt> matches any character except a line
456 * terminator unless the {@link #DOTALL} flag is specified.
457 *
458 * <p> By default, the regular expressions <tt>^</tt> and <tt>$</tt> ignore
459 * line terminators and only match at the beginning and the end, respectively,
460 * of the entire input sequence. If {@link #MULTILINE} mode is activated then
461 * <tt>^</tt> matches at the beginning of input and after any line terminator
462 * except at the end of input. When in {@link #MULTILINE} mode <tt>$</tt>
463 * matches just before a line terminator or the end of the input sequence.
464 *
465 * <a name="cg">
466 * <h4> Groups and capturing </h4>
467 *
468 * <a name="gnumber">
469 * <h5> Group number </h5>
470 * <p> Capturing groups are numbered by counting their opening parentheses from
471 * left to right.  In the expression <tt>((A)(B(C)))</tt>, for example, there
472 * are four such groups: </p>
473 *
474 * <blockquote><table cellpadding=1 cellspacing=0 summary="Capturing group numberings">
475 * <tr><th>1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</th>
476 *     <td><tt>((A)(B(C)))</tt></td></tr>
477 * <tr><th>2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</th>
478 *     <td><tt>(A)</tt></td></tr>
479 * <tr><th>3&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</th>
480 *     <td><tt>(B(C))</tt></td></tr>
481 * <tr><th>4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</th>
482 *     <td><tt>(C)</tt></td></tr>
483 * </table></blockquote>
484 *
485 * <p> Group zero always stands for the entire expression.
486 *
487 * <p> Capturing groups are so named because, during a match, each subsequence
488 * of the input sequence that matches such a group is saved.  The captured
489 * subsequence may be used later in the expression, via a back reference, and
490 * may also be retrieved from the matcher once the match operation is complete.
491 *
492 * <a name="groupname">
493 * <h5> Group name </h5>
494 * <p>A capturing group can also be assigned a "name", a <tt>named-capturing group</tt>,
495 * and then be back-referenced later by the "name". Group names are composed of
496 * the following characters. The first character must be a <tt>letter</tt>.
497 *
498 * <ul>
499 *   <li> The uppercase letters <tt>'A'</tt> through <tt>'Z'</tt>
500 *        (<tt>'&#92;u0041'</tt>&nbsp;through&nbsp;<tt>'&#92;u005a'</tt>),
501 *   <li> The lowercase letters <tt>'a'</tt> through <tt>'z'</tt>
502 *        (<tt>'&#92;u0061'</tt>&nbsp;through&nbsp;<tt>'&#92;u007a'</tt>),
503 *   <li> The digits <tt>'0'</tt> through <tt>'9'</tt>
504 *        (<tt>'&#92;u0030'</tt>&nbsp;through&nbsp;<tt>'&#92;u0039'</tt>),
505 * </ul>
506 *
507 * <p> A <tt>named-capturing group</tt> is still numbered as described in
508 * <a href="#gnumber">Group number</a>.
509 *
510 * <p> The captured input associated with a group is always the subsequence
511 * that the group most recently matched.  If a group is evaluated a second time
512 * because of quantification then its previously-captured value, if any, will
513 * be retained if the second evaluation fails.  Matching the string
514 * <tt>"aba"</tt> against the expression <tt>(a(b)?)+</tt>, for example, leaves
515 * group two set to <tt>"b"</tt>.  All captured input is discarded at the
516 * beginning of each match.
517 *
518 * <p> Groups beginning with <tt>(?</tt> are either pure, <i>non-capturing</i> groups
519 * that do not capture text and do not count towards the group total, or
520 * <i>named-capturing</i> group.
521 *
522 * <h4> Unicode support </h4>
523 *
524 * <p> This class is in conformance with Level 1 of <a
525 * href="http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr18/"><i>Unicode Technical
526 * Standard #18: Unicode Regular Expression</i></a>, plus RL2.1
527 * Canonical Equivalents.
528 * <p>
529 * <b>Unicode escape sequences</b> such as <tt>&#92;u2014</tt> in Java source code
530 * are processed as described in section 3.3 of
531 * <cite>The Java&trade; Language Specification</cite>.
532 * Such escape sequences are also implemented directly by the regular-expression
533 * parser so that Unicode escapes can be used in expressions that are read from
534 * files or from the keyboard.  Thus the strings <tt>"&#92;u2014"</tt> and
535 * <tt>"\\u2014"</tt>, while not equal, compile into the same pattern, which
536 * matches the character with hexadecimal value <tt>0x2014</tt>.
537 * <p>
538 * A Unicode character can also be represented in a regular-expression by
539 * using its <b>Hex notation</b>(hexadecimal code point value) directly as described in construct
540 * <tt>&#92;x{...}</tt>, for example a supplementary character U+2011F
541 * can be specified as <tt>&#92;x{2011F}</tt>, instead of two consecutive
542 * Unicode escape sequences of the surrogate pair
543 * <tt>&#92;uD840</tt><tt>&#92;uDD1F</tt>.
544 * <p>
545 * Unicode scripts, blocks, categories and binary properties are written with
546 * the <tt>\p</tt> and <tt>\P</tt> constructs as in Perl.
547 * <tt>\p{</tt><i>prop</i><tt>}</tt> matches if
548 * the input has the property <i>prop</i>, while <tt>\P{</tt><i>prop</i><tt>}</tt>
549 * does not match if the input has that property.
550 * <p>
551 * Scripts, blocks, categories and binary properties can be used both inside
552 * and outside of a character class.
553 * <a name="usc">
554 * <p>
555 * <b>Scripts</b> are specified either with the prefix {@code Is}, as in
556 * {@code IsHiragana}, or by using  the {@code script} keyword (or its short
557 * form {@code sc})as in {@code script=Hiragana} or {@code sc=Hiragana}.
558 * <p>
559 * The script names supported by <code>Pattern</code> are the valid script names
560 * accepted and defined by
561 * {@link java.lang.Character.UnicodeScript#forName(String) UnicodeScript.forName}.
562 * <a name="ubc">
563 * <p>
564 * <b>Blocks</b> are specified with the prefix {@code In}, as in
565 * {@code InMongolian}, or by using the keyword {@code block} (or its short
566 * form {@code blk}) as in {@code block=Mongolian} or {@code blk=Mongolian}.
567 * <p>
568 * The block names supported by <code>Pattern</code> are the valid block names
569 * accepted and defined by
570 * {@link java.lang.Character.UnicodeBlock#forName(String) UnicodeBlock.forName}.
571 * <p>
572 * <a name="ucc">
573 * <b>Categories</b> may be specified with the optional prefix {@code Is}:
574 * Both {@code \p{L}} and {@code \p{IsL}} denote the category of Unicode
575 * letters. Same as scripts and blocks, categories can also be specified
576 * by using the keyword {@code general_category} (or its short form
577 * {@code gc}) as in {@code general_category=Lu} or {@code gc=Lu}.
578 * <p>
579 * The supported categories are those of
580 * <a href="http://www.unicode.org/unicode/standard/standard.html">
581 * <i>The Unicode Standard</i></a> in the version specified by the
582 * {@link java.lang.Character Character} class. The category names are those
583 * defined in the Standard, both normative and informative.
584 * <p>
585 * <a name="ubpc">
586 * <b>Binary properties</b> are specified with the prefix {@code Is}, as in
587 * {@code IsAlphabetic}. The supported binary properties by <code>Pattern</code>
588 * are
589 * <ul>
590 *   <li> Alphabetic
591 *   <li> Ideographic
592 *   <li> Letter
593 *   <li> Lowercase
594 *   <li> Uppercase
595 *   <li> Titlecase
596 *   <li> Punctuation
597 *   <Li> Control
598 *   <li> White_Space
599 *   <li> Digit
600 *   <li> Hex_Digit
601 *   <li> Noncharacter_Code_Point
602 *   <li> Assigned
603 * </ul>
604
605
606 * <p>
607 * <b>Predefined Character classes</b> and <b>POSIX character classes</b> are in
608 * conformance with the recommendation of <i>Annex C: Compatibility Properties</i>
609 * of <a href="http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr18/"><i>Unicode Regular Expression
610 * </i></a>.
611 * <p>
612 * <table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0"
613 *  summary="predefined and posix character classes in Unicode mode">
614 * <tr align="left">
615 * <th bgcolor="#CCCCFF" align="left" id="classes">Classes</th>
616 * <th bgcolor="#CCCCFF" align="left" id="matches">Matches</th>
617 *</tr>
618 * <tr><td><tt>\p{Lower}</tt></td>
619 *     <td>A lowercase character:<tt>\p{IsLowercase}</tt></td></tr>
620 * <tr><td><tt>\p{Upper}</tt></td>
621 *     <td>An uppercase character:<tt>\p{IsUppercase}</tt></td></tr>
622 * <tr><td><tt>\p{ASCII}</tt></td>
623 *     <td>All ASCII:<tt>[\x00-\x7F]</tt></td></tr>
624 * <tr><td><tt>\p{Alpha}</tt></td>
625 *     <td>An alphabetic character:<tt>\p{IsAlphabetic}</tt></td></tr>
626 * <tr><td><tt>\p{Digit}</tt></td>
627 *     <td>A decimal digit character:<tt>p{IsDigit}</tt></td></tr>
628 * <tr><td><tt>\p{Alnum}</tt></td>
629 *     <td>An alphanumeric character:<tt>[\p{IsAlphabetic}\p{IsDigit}]</tt></td></tr>
630 * <tr><td><tt>\p{Punct}</tt></td>
631 *     <td>A punctuation character:<tt>p{IsPunctuation}</tt></td></tr>
632 * <tr><td><tt>\p{Graph}</tt></td>
633 *     <td>A visible character: <tt>[^\p{IsWhite_Space}\p{gc=Cc}\p{gc=Cs}\p{gc=Cn}]</tt></td></tr>
634 * <tr><td><tt>\p{Print}</tt></td>
635 *     <td>A printable character: <tt>[\p{Graph}\p{Blank}&&[^\p{Cntrl}]]</tt></td></tr>
636 * <tr><td><tt>\p{Blank}</tt></td>
637 *     <td>A space or a tab: <tt>[\p{IsWhite_Space}&&[^\p{gc=Zl}\p{gc=Zp}\x0a\x0b\x0c\x0d\x85]]</tt></td></tr>
638 * <tr><td><tt>\p{Cntrl}</tt></td>
639 *     <td>A control character: <tt>\p{gc=Cc}</tt></td></tr>
640 * <tr><td><tt>\p{XDigit}</tt></td>
641 *     <td>A hexadecimal digit: <tt>[\p{gc=Nd}\p{IsHex_Digit}]</tt></td></tr>
642 * <tr><td><tt>\p{Space}</tt></td>
643 *     <td>A whitespace character:<tt>\p{IsWhite_Space}</tt></td></tr>
644 * <tr><td><tt>\d</tt></td>
645 *     <td>A digit: <tt>\p{IsDigit}</tt></td></tr>
646 * <tr><td><tt>\D</tt></td>
647 *     <td>A non-digit: <tt>[^\d]</tt></td></tr>
648 * <tr><td><tt>\s</tt></td>
649 *     <td>A whitespace character: <tt>\p{IsWhite_Space}</tt></td></tr>
650 * <tr><td><tt>\S</tt></td>
651 *     <td>A non-whitespace character: <tt>[^\s]</tt></td></tr>
652 * <tr><td><tt>\w</tt></td>
653 *     <td>A word character: <tt>[\p{Alpha}\p{gc=Mn}\p{gc=Me}\p{gc=Mc}\p{Digit}\p{gc=Pc}]</tt></td></tr>
654 * <tr><td><tt>\W</tt></td>
655 *     <td>A non-word character: <tt>[^\w]</tt></td></tr>
656 * </table>
657 * <p>
658 * <a name="jcc">
659 * Categories that behave like the java.lang.Character
660 * boolean is<i>methodname</i> methods (except for the deprecated ones) are
661 * available through the same <tt>\p{</tt><i>prop</i><tt>}</tt> syntax where
662 * the specified property has the name <tt>java<i>methodname</i></tt>.
663 *
664 * <h4> Comparison to Perl 5 </h4>
665 *
666 * <p>The <code>Pattern</code> engine performs traditional NFA-based matching
667 * with ordered alternation as occurs in Perl 5.
668 *
669 * <p> Perl constructs not supported by this class: </p>
670 *
671 * <ul>
672 *    <li><p> Predefined character classes (Unicode character)
673 *    <p><tt>\h&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</tt>A horizontal whitespace
674 *    <p><tt>\H&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</tt>A non horizontal whitespace
675 *    <p><tt>\v&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</tt>A vertical whitespace
676 *    <p><tt>\V&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</tt>A non vertical whitespace
677 *    <p><tt>\R&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</tt>Any Unicode linebreak sequence
678 *    <tt>\u005cu000D\u005cu000A|[\u005cu000A\u005cu000B\u005cu000C\u005cu000D\u005cu0085\u005cu2028\u005cu2029]</tt>
679 *    <p><tt>\X&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</tt>Match Unicode
680 *    <a href="http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr18/#Default_Grapheme_Clusters">
681 *    <i>extended grapheme cluster</i></a>
682 *    </p></li>
683 *
684 *    <li><p> The backreference constructs, <tt>\g{</tt><i>n</i><tt>}</tt> for
685 *    the <i>n</i><sup>th</sup><a href="#cg">capturing group</a> and
686 *    <tt>\g{</tt><i>name</i><tt>}</tt> for
687 *    <a href="#groupname">named-capturing group</a>.
688 *    </p></li>
689 *
690 *    <li><p> The named character construct, <tt>\N{</tt><i>name</i><tt>}</tt>
691 *    for a Unicode character by its name.
692 *    </p></li>
693 *
694 *    <li><p> The conditional constructs
695 *    <tt>(?(</tt><i>condition</i><tt>)</tt><i>X</i><tt>)</tt> and
696 *    <tt>(?(</tt><i>condition</i><tt>)</tt><i>X</i><tt>|</tt><i>Y</i><tt>)</tt>,
697 *    </p></li>
698 *
699 *    <li><p> The embedded code constructs <tt>(?{</tt><i>code</i><tt>})</tt>
700 *    and <tt>(??{</tt><i>code</i><tt>})</tt>,</p></li>
701 *
702 *    <li><p> The embedded comment syntax <tt>(?#comment)</tt>, and </p></li>
703 *
704 *    <li><p> The preprocessing operations <tt>\l</tt> <tt>&#92;u</tt>,
705 *    <tt>\L</tt>, and <tt>\U</tt>.  </p></li>
706 *
707 * </ul>
708 *
709 * <p> Constructs supported by this class but not by Perl: </p>
710 *
711 * <ul>
712 *
713 *    <li><p> Character-class union and intersection as described
714 *    <a href="#cc">above</a>.</p></li>
715 *
716 * </ul>
717 *
718 * <p> Notable differences from Perl: </p>
719 *
720 * <ul>
721 *
722 *    <li><p> In Perl, <tt>\1</tt> through <tt>\9</tt> are always interpreted
723 *    as back references; a backslash-escaped number greater than <tt>9</tt> is
724 *    treated as a back reference if at least that many subexpressions exist,
725 *    otherwise it is interpreted, if possible, as an octal escape.  In this
726 *    class octal escapes must always begin with a zero. In this class,
727 *    <tt>\1</tt> through <tt>\9</tt> are always interpreted as back
728 *    references, and a larger number is accepted as a back reference if at
729 *    least that many subexpressions exist at that point in the regular
730 *    expression, otherwise the parser will drop digits until the number is
731 *    smaller or equal to the existing number of groups or it is one digit.
732 *    </p></li>
733 *
734 *    <li><p> Perl uses the <tt>g</tt> flag to request a match that resumes
735 *    where the last match left off.  This functionality is provided implicitly
736 *    by the {@link Matcher} class: Repeated invocations of the {@link
737 *    Matcher#find find} method will resume where the last match left off,
738 *    unless the matcher is reset.  </p></li>
739 *
740 *    <li><p> In Perl, embedded flags at the top level of an expression affect
741 *    the whole expression.  In this class, embedded flags always take effect
742 *    at the point at which they appear, whether they are at the top level or
743 *    within a group; in the latter case, flags are restored at the end of the
744 *    group just as in Perl.  </p></li>
745 *
746 * </ul>
747 *
748 *
749 * <p> For a more precise description of the behavior of regular expression
750 * constructs, please see <a href="http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/regex3/">
751 * <i>Mastering Regular Expressions, 3nd Edition</i>, Jeffrey E. F. Friedl,
752 * O'Reilly and Associates, 2006.</a>
753 * </p>
754 *
755 * @see java.lang.String#split(String, int)
756 * @see java.lang.String#split(String)
757 *
758 * @author      Mike McCloskey
759 * @author      Mark Reinhold
760 * @author      JSR-51 Expert Group
761 * @since       1.4
762 * @spec        JSR-51
763 */
764
765public final class Pattern implements java.io.Serializable
766{
767
768    /**
769     * Regular expression modifier values.  Instead of being passed as
770     * arguments, they can also be passed as inline modifiers.
771     * For example, the following statements have the same effect.
772     * <pre>
773     * RegExp r1 = RegExp.compile("abc", Pattern.I|Pattern.M);
774     * RegExp r2 = RegExp.compile("(?im)abc", 0);
775     * </pre>
776     *
777     * The flags are duplicated so that the familiar Perl match flag
778     * names are available.
779     */
780
781    /**
782     * Enables Unix lines mode.
783     *
784     * <p> In this mode, only the <tt>'\n'</tt> line terminator is recognized
785     * in the behavior of <tt>.</tt>, <tt>^</tt>, and <tt>$</tt>.
786     *
787     * <p> Unix lines mode can also be enabled via the embedded flag
788     * expression&nbsp;<tt>(?d)</tt>.
789     */
790    public static final int UNIX_LINES = 0x01;
791
792    /**
793     * Enables case-insensitive matching.
794     *
795     * <p> By default, case-insensitive matching assumes that only characters
796     * in the US-ASCII charset are being matched.  Unicode-aware
797     * case-insensitive matching can be enabled by specifying the {@link
798     * #UNICODE_CASE} flag in conjunction with this flag.
799     *
800     * <p> Case-insensitive matching can also be enabled via the embedded flag
801     * expression&nbsp;<tt>(?i)</tt>.
802     *
803     * <p> Specifying this flag may impose a slight performance penalty.  </p>
804     */
805    public static final int CASE_INSENSITIVE = 0x02;
806
807    /**
808     * Permits whitespace and comments in pattern.
809     *
810     * <p> In this mode, whitespace is ignored, and embedded comments starting
811     * with <tt>#</tt> are ignored until the end of a line.
812     *
813     * <p> Comments mode can also be enabled via the embedded flag
814     * expression&nbsp;<tt>(?x)</tt>.
815     */
816    public static final int COMMENTS = 0x04;
817
818    /**
819     * Enables multiline mode.
820     *
821     * <p> In multiline mode the expressions <tt>^</tt> and <tt>$</tt> match
822     * just after or just before, respectively, a line terminator or the end of
823     * the input sequence.  By default these expressions only match at the
824     * beginning and the end of the entire input sequence.
825     *
826     * <p> Multiline mode can also be enabled via the embedded flag
827     * expression&nbsp;<tt>(?m)</tt>.  </p>
828     */
829    public static final int MULTILINE = 0x08;
830
831    /**
832     * Enables literal parsing of the pattern.
833     *
834     * <p> When this flag is specified then the input string that specifies
835     * the pattern is treated as a sequence of literal characters.
836     * Metacharacters or escape sequences in the input sequence will be
837     * given no special meaning.
838     *
839     * <p>The flags CASE_INSENSITIVE and UNICODE_CASE retain their impact on
840     * matching when used in conjunction with this flag. The other flags
841     * become superfluous.
842     *
843     * <p> There is no embedded flag character for enabling literal parsing.
844     * @since 1.5
845     */
846    public static final int LITERAL = 0x10;
847
848    /**
849     * Enables dotall mode.
850     *
851     * <p> In dotall mode, the expression <tt>.</tt> matches any character,
852     * including a line terminator.  By default this expression does not match
853     * line terminators.
854     *
855     * <p> Dotall mode can also be enabled via the embedded flag
856     * expression&nbsp;<tt>(?s)</tt>.  (The <tt>s</tt> is a mnemonic for
857     * "single-line" mode, which is what this is called in Perl.)  </p>
858     */
859    public static final int DOTALL = 0x20;
860
861    /**
862     * Enables Unicode-aware case folding.
863     *
864     * <p> When this flag is specified then case-insensitive matching, when
865     * enabled by the {@link #CASE_INSENSITIVE} flag, is done in a manner
866     * consistent with the Unicode Standard.  By default, case-insensitive
867     * matching assumes that only characters in the US-ASCII charset are being
868     * matched.
869     *
870     * <p> Unicode-aware case folding can also be enabled via the embedded flag
871     * expression&nbsp;<tt>(?u)</tt>.
872     *
873     * <p> Specifying this flag may impose a performance penalty.  </p>
874     */
875    public static final int UNICODE_CASE = 0x40;
876
877    /**
878     * Enables canonical equivalence.
879     *
880     * <p> When this flag is specified then two characters will be considered
881     * to match if, and only if, their full canonical decompositions match.
882     * The expression <tt>"a&#92;u030A"</tt>, for example, will match the
883     * string <tt>"&#92;u00E5"</tt> when this flag is specified.  By default,
884     * matching does not take canonical equivalence into account.
885     *
886     * <p> There is no embedded flag character for enabling canonical
887     * equivalence.
888     *
889     * <p> Specifying this flag may impose a performance penalty.  </p>
890     */
891    public static final int CANON_EQ = 0x80;
892
893    /**
894     * Enables the Unicode version of <i>Predefined character classes</i> and
895     * <i>POSIX character classes</i> as eefined by <a href="http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr18/"><i>Unicode Technical
896     * Standard #18: Unicode Regular Expression</i></a>
897     * <i>Annex C: Compatibility Properties</i>.
898     * <p>
899     *
900     * This flag has no effect on Android, unicode character classes are always
901     * used.
902     *
903     * @since 1.7
904     */
905    public static final int UNICODE_CHARACTER_CLASS = 0x100;
906
907    /* Pattern has only two serialized components: The pattern string
908     * and the flags, which are all that is needed to recompile the pattern
909     * when it is deserialized.
910     */
911
912    /** use serialVersionUID from Merlin b59 for interoperability */
913    private static final long serialVersionUID = 5073258162644648461L;
914
915    /**
916     * The original regular-expression pattern string.
917     *
918     * @serial
919     */
920    private final String pattern;
921
922    /**
923     * The original pattern flags.
924     *
925     * @serial
926     */
927    private final int flags;
928
929    transient long address;
930
931    private static final NativeAllocationRegistry registry = new NativeAllocationRegistry(
932            getNativeFinalizer(), nativeSize());
933
934
935    /**
936     * Compiles the given regular expression into a pattern.  </p>
937     *
938     * @param  regex
939     *         The expression to be compiled
940     *
941     * @throws  PatternSyntaxException
942     *          If the expression's syntax is invalid
943     */
944    public static Pattern compile(String regex) {
945        return new Pattern(regex, 0);
946    }
947
948    /**
949     * Compiles the given regular expression into a pattern with the given
950     * flags.  </p>
951     *
952     * @param  regex
953     *         The expression to be compiled
954     *
955     * @param  flags
956     *         Match flags, a bit mask that may include
957     *         {@link #CASE_INSENSITIVE}, {@link #MULTILINE}, {@link #DOTALL},
958     *         {@link #UNICODE_CASE}, {@link #CANON_EQ}, {@link #UNIX_LINES},
959     *         {@link #LITERAL}, {@link #UNICODE_CHARACTER_CLASS}
960     *         and {@link #COMMENTS}
961     *
962     * @throws  IllegalArgumentException
963     *          If bit values other than those corresponding to the defined
964     *          match flags are set in <tt>flags</tt>
965     *
966     * @throws  PatternSyntaxException
967     *          If the expression's syntax is invalid
968     */
969    public static Pattern compile(String regex, int flags) throws PatternSyntaxException {
970        return new Pattern(regex, flags);
971    }
972
973    /**
974     * Returns the regular expression from which this pattern was compiled.
975     * </p>
976     *
977     * @return  The source of this pattern
978     */
979    public String pattern() {
980        return pattern;
981    }
982
983    /**
984     * <p>Returns the string representation of this pattern. This
985     * is the regular expression from which this pattern was
986     * compiled.</p>
987     *
988     * @return  The string representation of this pattern
989     * @since 1.5
990     */
991    public String toString() {
992        return pattern;
993    }
994
995    /**
996     * Creates a matcher that will match the given input against this pattern.
997     * </p>
998     *
999     * @param  input
1000     *         The character sequence to be matched
1001     *
1002     * @return  A new matcher for this pattern
1003     */
1004    public Matcher matcher(CharSequence input) {
1005        Matcher m = new Matcher(this, input);
1006        return m;
1007    }
1008
1009    /**
1010     * Returns this pattern's match flags.  </p>
1011     *
1012     * @return  The match flags specified when this pattern was compiled
1013     */
1014    public int flags() {
1015        return flags;
1016    }
1017
1018    /**
1019     * Compiles the given regular expression and attempts to match the given
1020     * input against it.
1021     *
1022     * <p> An invocation of this convenience method of the form
1023     *
1024     * <blockquote><pre>
1025     * Pattern.matches(regex, input);</pre></blockquote>
1026     *
1027     * behaves in exactly the same way as the expression
1028     *
1029     * <blockquote><pre>
1030     * Pattern.compile(regex).matcher(input).matches()</pre></blockquote>
1031     *
1032     * <p> If a pattern is to be used multiple times, compiling it once and reusing
1033     * it will be more efficient than invoking this method each time.  </p>
1034     *
1035     * @param  regex
1036     *         The expression to be compiled
1037     *
1038     * @param  input
1039     *         The character sequence to be matched
1040     *
1041     * @throws  PatternSyntaxException
1042     *          If the expression's syntax is invalid
1043     */
1044    public static boolean matches(String regex, CharSequence input) {
1045        Pattern p = Pattern.compile(regex);
1046        Matcher m = p.matcher(input);
1047        return m.matches();
1048    }
1049
1050    /**
1051     * Splits the given input sequence around matches of this pattern.
1052     *
1053     * <p> The array returned by this method contains each substring of the
1054     * input sequence that is terminated by another subsequence that matches
1055     * this pattern or is terminated by the end of the input sequence.  The
1056     * substrings in the array are in the order in which they occur in the
1057     * input.  If this pattern does not match any subsequence of the input then
1058     * the resulting array has just one element, namely the input sequence in
1059     * string form.
1060     *
1061     * <p> The <tt>limit</tt> parameter controls the number of times the
1062     * pattern is applied and therefore affects the length of the resulting
1063     * array.  If the limit <i>n</i> is greater than zero then the pattern
1064     * will be applied at most <i>n</i>&nbsp;-&nbsp;1 times, the array's
1065     * length will be no greater than <i>n</i>, and the array's last entry
1066     * will contain all input beyond the last matched delimiter.  If <i>n</i>
1067     * is non-positive then the pattern will be applied as many times as
1068     * possible and the array can have any length.  If <i>n</i> is zero then
1069     * the pattern will be applied as many times as possible, the array can
1070     * have any length, and trailing empty strings will be discarded.
1071     *
1072     * <p> The input <tt>"boo:and:foo"</tt>, for example, yields the following
1073     * results with these parameters:
1074     *
1075     * <blockquote><table cellpadding=1 cellspacing=0
1076     *              summary="Split examples showing regex, limit, and result">
1077     * <tr><th><P align="left"><i>Regex&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</i></th>
1078     *     <th><P align="left"><i>Limit&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</i></th>
1079     *     <th><P align="left"><i>Result&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</i></th></tr>
1080     * <tr><td align=center>:</td>
1081     *     <td align=center>2</td>
1082     *     <td><tt>{ "boo", "and:foo" }</tt></td></tr>
1083     * <tr><td align=center>:</td>
1084     *     <td align=center>5</td>
1085     *     <td><tt>{ "boo", "and", "foo" }</tt></td></tr>
1086     * <tr><td align=center>:</td>
1087     *     <td align=center>-2</td>
1088     *     <td><tt>{ "boo", "and", "foo" }</tt></td></tr>
1089     * <tr><td align=center>o</td>
1090     *     <td align=center>5</td>
1091     *     <td><tt>{ "b", "", ":and:f", "", "" }</tt></td></tr>
1092     * <tr><td align=center>o</td>
1093     *     <td align=center>-2</td>
1094     *     <td><tt>{ "b", "", ":and:f", "", "" }</tt></td></tr>
1095     * <tr><td align=center>o</td>
1096     *     <td align=center>0</td>
1097     *     <td><tt>{ "b", "", ":and:f" }</tt></td></tr>
1098     * </table></blockquote>
1099     *
1100     *
1101     * @param  input
1102     *         The character sequence to be split
1103     *
1104     * @param  limit
1105     *         The result threshold, as described above
1106     *
1107     * @return  The array of strings computed by splitting the input
1108     *          around matches of this pattern
1109     */
1110    public String[] split(CharSequence input, int limit) {
1111        int index = 0;
1112        boolean matchLimited = limit > 0;
1113        ArrayList<String> matchList = new ArrayList<>();
1114        Matcher m = matcher(input);
1115
1116        // Add segments before each match found
1117        while(m.find()) {
1118            if (!matchLimited || matchList.size() < limit - 1) {
1119                String match = input.subSequence(index, m.start()).toString();
1120                matchList.add(match);
1121                index = m.end();
1122            } else if (matchList.size() == limit - 1) { // last one
1123                String match = input.subSequence(index,
1124                                                 input.length()).toString();
1125                matchList.add(match);
1126                index = m.end();
1127            }
1128        }
1129
1130        // If no match was found, return this
1131        if (index == 0)
1132            return new String[] {input.toString()};
1133
1134        // Add remaining segment
1135        if (!matchLimited || matchList.size() < limit)
1136            matchList.add(input.subSequence(index, input.length()).toString());
1137
1138        // Construct result
1139        int resultSize = matchList.size();
1140        if (limit == 0)
1141            while (resultSize > 0 && matchList.get(resultSize-1).equals(""))
1142                resultSize--;
1143        String[] result = new String[resultSize];
1144        return matchList.subList(0, resultSize).toArray(result);
1145    }
1146
1147    /**
1148     * Splits the given input sequence around matches of this pattern.
1149     *
1150     * <p> This method works as if by invoking the two-argument {@link
1151     * #split(java.lang.CharSequence, int) split} method with the given input
1152     * sequence and a limit argument of zero.  Trailing empty strings are
1153     * therefore not included in the resulting array. </p>
1154     *
1155     * <p> The input <tt>"boo:and:foo"</tt>, for example, yields the following
1156     * results with these expressions:
1157     *
1158     * <blockquote><table cellpadding=1 cellspacing=0
1159     *              summary="Split examples showing regex and result">
1160     * <tr><th><P align="left"><i>Regex&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</i></th>
1161     *     <th><P align="left"><i>Result</i></th></tr>
1162     * <tr><td align=center>:</td>
1163     *     <td><tt>{ "boo", "and", "foo" }</tt></td></tr>
1164     * <tr><td align=center>o</td>
1165     *     <td><tt>{ "b", "", ":and:f" }</tt></td></tr>
1166     * </table></blockquote>
1167     *
1168     *
1169     * @param  input
1170     *         The character sequence to be split
1171     *
1172     * @return  The array of strings computed by splitting the input
1173     *          around matches of this pattern
1174     */
1175    public String[] split(CharSequence input) {
1176        return split(input, 0);
1177    }
1178
1179    /**
1180     * Returns a literal pattern <code>String</code> for the specified
1181     * <code>String</code>.
1182     *
1183     * <p>This method produces a <code>String</code> that can be used to
1184     * create a <code>Pattern</code> that would match the string
1185     * <code>s</code> as if it were a literal pattern.</p> Metacharacters
1186     * or escape sequences in the input sequence will be given no special
1187     * meaning.
1188     *
1189     * @param  s The string to be literalized
1190     * @return  A literal string replacement
1191     * @since 1.5
1192     */
1193    public static String quote(String s) {
1194        int slashEIndex = s.indexOf("\\E");
1195        if (slashEIndex == -1)
1196            return "\\Q" + s + "\\E";
1197
1198        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(s.length() * 2);
1199        sb.append("\\Q");
1200        slashEIndex = 0;
1201        int current = 0;
1202        while ((slashEIndex = s.indexOf("\\E", current)) != -1) {
1203            sb.append(s.substring(current, slashEIndex));
1204            current = slashEIndex + 2;
1205            sb.append("\\E\\\\E\\Q");
1206        }
1207        sb.append(s.substring(current, s.length()));
1208        sb.append("\\E");
1209        return sb.toString();
1210    }
1211
1212    /**
1213     * Recompile the Pattern instance from a stream.  The original pattern
1214     * string is read in and the object tree is recompiled from it.
1215     */
1216    private void readObject(java.io.ObjectInputStream s)
1217        throws java.io.IOException, ClassNotFoundException {
1218
1219        // Read in all fields
1220        s.defaultReadObject();
1221        compile();
1222    }
1223
1224    /**
1225     * This private constructor is used to create all Patterns. The pattern
1226     * string and match flags are all that is needed to completely describe
1227     * a Pattern.
1228     */
1229    private Pattern(String p, int f) {
1230        if ((f & CANON_EQ) != 0) {
1231            throw new UnsupportedOperationException("CANON_EQ flag not supported");
1232        }
1233        int supportedFlags = CASE_INSENSITIVE | COMMENTS | DOTALL | LITERAL | MULTILINE | UNICODE_CASE | UNIX_LINES;
1234        if ((f & ~supportedFlags) != 0) {
1235            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Unsupported flags: " + (f & ~supportedFlags));
1236        }
1237        this.pattern = p;
1238        this.flags = f;
1239        compile();
1240    }
1241
1242    private void compile() throws PatternSyntaxException {
1243        if (pattern == null) {
1244            throw new NullPointerException("pattern == null");
1245        }
1246
1247        String icuPattern = pattern;
1248        if ((flags & LITERAL) != 0) {
1249            icuPattern = quote(pattern);
1250        }
1251
1252        // These are the flags natively supported by ICU.
1253        // They even have the same value in native code.
1254        int icuFlags = flags & (CASE_INSENSITIVE | COMMENTS | MULTILINE | DOTALL | UNIX_LINES);
1255        address = compileImpl(icuPattern, icuFlags);
1256        registry.registerNativeAllocation(this, address);
1257    }
1258
1259    private static native long compileImpl(String regex, int flags);
1260    private static native long getNativeFinalizer();
1261    private static native int nativeSize();
1262
1263    /**
1264     * Creates a predicate which can be used to match a string.
1265     *
1266     * @return  The predicate which can be used for matching on a string
1267     * @since   1.8
1268     */
1269    public Predicate<String> asPredicate() {
1270        return s -> matcher(s).find();
1271    }
1272
1273    /**
1274     * Creates a stream from the given input sequence around matches of this
1275     * pattern.
1276     *
1277     * <p> The stream returned by this method contains each substring of the
1278     * input sequence that is terminated by another subsequence that matches
1279     * this pattern or is terminated by the end of the input sequence.  The
1280     * substrings in the stream are in the order in which they occur in the
1281     * input. Trailing empty strings will be discarded and not encountered in
1282     * the stream.
1283     *
1284     * <p> If this pattern does not match any subsequence of the input then
1285     * the resulting stream has just one element, namely the input sequence in
1286     * string form.
1287     *
1288     * <p> When there is a positive-width match at the beginning of the input
1289     * sequence then an empty leading substring is included at the beginning
1290     * of the stream. A zero-width match at the beginning however never produces
1291     * such empty leading substring.
1292     *
1293     * <p> If the input sequence is mutable, it must remain constant during the
1294     * execution of the terminal stream operation.  Otherwise, the result of the
1295     * terminal stream operation is undefined.
1296     *
1297     * @param   input
1298     *          The character sequence to be split
1299     *
1300     * @return  The stream of strings computed by splitting the input
1301     *          around matches of this pattern
1302     * @see     #split(CharSequence)
1303     * @since   1.8
1304     */
1305    public Stream<String> splitAsStream(final CharSequence input) {
1306        class MatcherIterator implements Iterator<String> {
1307            private final Matcher matcher;
1308            // The start position of the next sub-sequence of input
1309            // when current == input.length there are no more elements
1310            private int current;
1311            // null if the next element, if any, needs to obtained
1312            private String nextElement;
1313            // > 0 if there are N next empty elements
1314            private int emptyElementCount;
1315
1316            MatcherIterator() {
1317                this.matcher = matcher(input);
1318            }
1319
1320            public String next() {
1321                if (!hasNext())
1322                    throw new NoSuchElementException();
1323
1324                if (emptyElementCount == 0) {
1325                    String n = nextElement;
1326                    nextElement = null;
1327                    return n;
1328                } else {
1329                    emptyElementCount--;
1330                    return "";
1331                }
1332            }
1333
1334            public boolean hasNext() {
1335                if (nextElement != null || emptyElementCount > 0)
1336                    return true;
1337
1338                if (current == input.length())
1339                    return false;
1340
1341                // Consume the next matching element
1342                // Count sequence of matching empty elements
1343                while (matcher.find()) {
1344                    nextElement = input.subSequence(current, matcher.start()).toString();
1345                    current = matcher.end();
1346                    if (!nextElement.isEmpty()) {
1347                        return true;
1348                    } else if (current > 0) { // no empty leading substring for zero-width
1349                                              // match at the beginning of the input
1350                        emptyElementCount++;
1351                    }
1352                }
1353
1354                // Consume last matching element
1355                nextElement = input.subSequence(current, input.length()).toString();
1356                current = input.length();
1357                if (!nextElement.isEmpty()) {
1358                    return true;
1359                } else {
1360                    // Ignore a terminal sequence of matching empty elements
1361                    emptyElementCount = 0;
1362                    nextElement = null;
1363                    return false;
1364                }
1365            }
1366        }
1367        return StreamSupport.stream(Spliterators.spliteratorUnknownSize(
1368                new MatcherIterator(), Spliterator.ORDERED | Spliterator.NONNULL), false);
1369    }
1370}
1371