TheServerSide

The benefits of using compiled regex in Python and Java

I was involved in a recent discussion on the "best" way to remove a given parameter from a URL string. The conversation began with using string primitives to split and join the parameter, a method ...
InfoWorld

Regex: Processing patterns in text

Some say a set of regular expressions comprises a domain-specific language, or DSL; essentially, a mini-programming language. A full-blown programming language like Java or Python can do many things, ...
IEEE

JST: An automatic test generation tool for industrial Java applications with strings

Abstract: In this paper we present JST, a tool that automatically generates a high coverage test suite for industrial strength Java applications. This tool uses a numeric-string hybrid symbolic ...
GitHub

Rest Client java.util.regex.PatternSyntaxException: Dangling meta character '*' near index 0 when setting http.nonProxyHosts

I have REST Client injected to my resource class. @Path("/hello") public class GreetingResource { @Inject @RestClient HelloResourceClient helloResourceClient; @GET @Produces(MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN) ...
TheServerSide

Learn Java lambda syntax quickly by example

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The goal of a lambda expression in Java is to implement a single method. All Java methods have ...
GitHub

Regular expression failure for certain strings

presto> select REGEXP_EXTRACT('Baby K', 'by ([A-Z].*)\b[a-z]'); Query 20170809_223707_70717_ucc54 failed: 6 java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 6 at io.airlift ...