Parts of the ApiDoc of the Pattern Class

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/extra/regex/pattern.html

Comparison to Perl 5

Perl constructs not supported by this class:

Constructs supported by this class but not by Perl:

Notable differences from Perl:

For a more precise description of the behavior of regular expression constructs, please see Mastering Regular Expressions, 2nd Edition, Jeffrey E. F. Friedl, O'Reilly and Associates, 2002.