Pattern matching a string

I'm trying to pattern match a string in java which has the following syntax:
ENSMUS followed by one character which can be anything followed by 11 digits.
I've done this in javascript using the following regex:
var regex = /^ENSMUS(\w{1})(\d{11})$/;I'm slightly confused by the Java equivalent (having looked at the Pattern class in the API). Could anyone lend a hand please?

ENSMUS followed by one character which can be
anything followed by 11 digits.
String s = ...
boolean b = s.matches("ENSMUS.\\d{11}");Note that when matching an entire String, you don't
need to provide a beginning (^) and end ($) in your
regex. Also, you said "any character", this is not
\w, but a . (a period). \w is a "word character".So I assume if it was a word character it would be
String s = ...
boolean b = s.matches("ENSMUS\\w{1}\\d{11}");I'll try it and see what happens. Thanks

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String file_name = (String)hash.get("DOCNAME"));
file_name = file_name.replace("'","285745@");The problem here is that String.replace() operates only on char arguments, you cannot replace entire substrings with it.
The String.replaceAll() method, on the other hand, operates on regular expressions. In many common cases (those in which the substring you want to find contains no characters with special meaning to the regular expression processor) you can use it exactly as you would String.replace() except that it operates on substrings.
But regular expressions are much more powerful than that. The javadoc for the "Pattern" class has some information on how to use them. There is also a tutorial at http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/extra/regex/intro.html which you might find helpful.
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Hi,
I need some help using pattern matching in strings .. this is what i need to do ..
if given a string of this format
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Hi,
I want to do pattern matching using String. Here is my requirement.
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Now I know replace function is not going to do this. It is just a indicative, for you to know what I want to achieve. which other java function / method i can implement to get the desired result.
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Hi,
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So, whereever I have '(apostrophe) I will replace it with pattern "285745@" and then at another jsp where I get this request parameter I do reverse as follows:
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thanks,
sa pa

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levels of precedence, but it needs to be crystal clear
that | has the lowest precedence (even lower than
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