Class GREP


  • public class GREP
    extends Object
    The GREP class provides a client for reading in a sequence of lines from standard input and printing to standard output those lines that contain a substring matching a specified regular expression.

    For additional documentation, see Section 3.1 of Algorithms, 4th Edition by Robert Sedgewick and Kevin Wayne.

    Author:
    Robert Sedgewick, Kevin Wayne
    • Method Detail

      • main

        public static void main​(String[] args)
        Interprets the command-line argument as a regular expression (supporting closure, binary or, parentheses, and wildcard) reads in lines from standard input; writes to standard output those lines that contain a substring matching the regular expression.
        Parameters:
        args - the command-line arguments