• RE_BAD_SYNTAX_FOR_REGULAR_EXPRESSION

The code here uses a regular expression that is invalid according to the syntax for regular expressions. This statement will throw a PatternSyntaxException when executed. – 2013-10-14

Syntax errors also called as parsing errors, are caught by ParseSyntaxException in Java whenever incorrect syntax is passed in any regular expression.

<code Java> public class PatternExample {

public static void main(String[] args) {
	Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile('.xx.');
	Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher('MxxY');
	System.out.println('Input String matches regex - '+matcher.matches());
	// bad regular expression
	pattern = Pattern.compile('*xx*');
}

} </Code>

<code Java> String str = 'bbb'; System.out.println('Using String matches method: '+str.matches('.bb')); System.out.println('Using Pattern matches method: '+Pattern.matches('.bb', str)); </Code>

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