[news.eclipse.modeling.m2t] Re: Check/Xtend: Regular Expression syntax

[Sven Efftinge <sven.efftinge@xxxxxxxxx>]

Unfortunately, you have to double the backslashes.

So it is :
 name.matches("\\w*");

Regards,
Sven

Hauke Fuhrmann schrieb:
> Dear Xtend folks,
>
> could you point me to some reference on the Syntax for regular 
> expressions for Strings in Xtend and Check?
>
> I want to use e.g.
>
> name.matches("MyRegex");
>
> Where MyRegex is a regular expression. I tried to follow the Java Syntax 
> (http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/regex/Pattern.html ) like
>
> name.matches("\w*");
>
> to make sure that something only consists of word characters. 
> Unfortunately the syntax seems to be different.
>
> Google didn't show me the way and the old oAW document also not 
> (http://www.openarchitectureware.org/pub/documentation/4.3.1/html/contents/core_reference.html#r10_expressions_language 
> )
>
> Cheers,
> Hauke


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