Nothing built-in to java unfortunately, but there are some free third party API's GNU Regexp http://www.cacas.org/~wes/java/index.html Apache Java Regexp: http://jakarta.apache.org/regexp/index.html Apache Java ORO: http://jakarta.apache.org/oro/ _____________________________________________ Pete Freitag (pfreitag at cfdev.com) CFDEV.COM ColdFusion Developer Resources http://www.cfdev.com/ -----Original Message----- From: thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org [mailto:thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org]On Behalf Of Chris Johnston Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2001 7:49 PM To: thelist at lists.evolt.org Subject: [thelist] Regular expressions in Java Is there a way to do regular expressions in Java? Something like this: if (char != [A-Za-z1-9]) /chris --------------------------------------- For unsubscribe and other options, including the Tip Harvester and archive of TheList go to: http://lists.evolt.org Workers of the Web, evolt !