Regular expressions for matching file path

Could someone give me idea that how can i compare a fixed path, with the paths user gives using regular expressions?
My fixed path is : src\com\sample\demo\work\gui\.**
and user may give like src\com\sample\demo\work\gui\test.jsp, src\com\sample\demo\work\gui\init.jsp etc.
Any ideas are appreciated and thanks in advance.

...and if you insist on using regexes, you'll have to double-escape the backslashes: if ( userString.matches("src\\\\com\\\\sample\\\\demo\\\\work\\\\gui\\\\.*") ) { Whether you use regexes or not, you'll save yourself a lot of hassle by converting all backslashes to forward slashes before you do anything with the strings: userString = userString.replace('\\', '/');
if ( userString.matches("src/com/sample/demo/work/gui/.*") ) {
// or...
if ( userString.startsWith("src/com/sample/demo/work/gui/") ) {

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