/*license*\ XBN-Java: Copyright (C) 2014, Jeff Epstein (aliteralmind __DASH__ github __AT__ yahoo __DOT__ com) This software is dual-licensed under the: - Lesser General Public License (LGPL) version 3.0 or, at your option, any later version; - Apache Software License (ASL) version 2.0. Either license may be applied at your discretion. More information may be found at - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-licensing. The text of both licenses is available in the root directory of this project, under the names "LICENSE_lgpl-3.0.txt" and "LICENSE_asl-2.0.txt". The latest copies may be downloaded at: - LGPL 3.0: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-3.0.txt - ASL 2.0: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt \*license*/ package com.github.xbn.examples.regexutil.non_xbn; import java.util.regex.Matcher; import java.util.regex.Pattern; /** <p>Uses two regular expressions to confirm a string has one-or-more characters <i>and</i> zero-or-more spaces. This is an answer to <br/>     <code><a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23091427/java-regex-allow-white-spaces-in-the-string">http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23091427/java-regex-allow-white-spaces-in-the-string</a></code></p> <p>{@code java com.github.xbn.examples.regexutil.non_xbn.OnePlusLetterDigitZeroPlusSpace}</p> * @since 0.1.0 * @author Copyright (C) 2014, Jeff Epstein ({@code aliteralmind __DASH__ github __AT__ yahoo __DOT__ com}), dual-licensed under the LGPL (version 3.0 or later) or the ASL (version 2.0). See source code for details. <a href="http://xbnjava.aliteralmind.com">{@code http://xbnjava.aliteralmind.com}</a>, <a href="https://github.com/aliteralmind/xbnjava">{@code https://github.com/aliteralmind/xbnjava}</a> **/ public class OnePlusLetterDigitZeroPlusSpace { //"": Unused search string, to reuse the matcher object private static final Matcher mtchr1PlusLetterDigitSpc = Pattern.compile("^[a-zA-z0-9 ]+$").matcher(""); private static final Matcher mtchr0PlusSpc = Pattern.compile("^ *$").matcher(""); public static final void main(String[] ignored) { test(""); test(" "); test("a"); test("hello "); test(" hello "); test("hello there"); } private static final void test(String to_search) { System.out.print("\"" + to_search + "\": "); if(mtchr1PlusLetterDigitSpc.reset(to_search).matches() && !mtchr0PlusSpc.reset(to_search).matches()) { System.out.println("good"); } else { System.out.println("BAD"); } } }