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Trail: Essential Classes
Lesson: Regular Expressions
Regular Expressions
Introduction
Test Harness
String Literals
Character Classes
Predefined Character Classes
Quantifiers
Capturing Groups
Boundary Matchers
Methods of the Pattern Class
Methods of the Matcher Class
Methods of the PatternSyntaxException Class
Additional Resources
Questions and Exercises
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> Now that you've completed this lesson on regular expressions, you'll probably find that your main references will be the API documentation for the following classes: `Pattern`, `Matcher`, and `PatternSyntaxException`.

> For a more precise description of the behavior of regular expression constructs, we recommend reading the book Mastering Regular Expressions by Jeffrey E. F. Friedl.

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