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 ...

Java’s character and assorted string classes offer low-level support for pattern matching, but that support typically leads to complex code. For simpler and more efficient coding, Java offers the ...

All but the most casual Linux users no doubt have encountered regular expressions, if only in a cursory manner. Regular expressions are extremely powerful and flexible pattern-matching and -replacing ...

In my last blog post, I looked at using a simple Java application to determine which characters would work as desired for splitting a String with String.split. Simple utilities like this one are often ...