RegExUtils.java

/*
 * Copyright 2004-2016 EPAM Systems
 *
 * This file is part of JDI project.
 *
 * JDI is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
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 * without even the implied warranty ofMERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. 
 * See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
 *
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 * along with JDI. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 */
package com.epam.commons;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;

import static java.util.regex.Pattern.compile;

/**
 * Created by Roman_Iovlev on 9/8/2015.
 */
public class RegExUtils {
    public static List<String> matches(String str, String regEx) {
        List<String> result = new ArrayList<>();
        Pattern pattern = compile(regEx);
        Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(str);
        while (matcher.find())
            result.add(matcher.group());
        return result;
    }
}