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Comparison of Regular Expressions
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import java.util.regex.Matcher; | |
import java.util.regex.Pattern; | |
Pattern STATE_REGEX = Pattern.compile( "\\b(?<stateCode>[a-zA-Z]{2})$" ); | |
Matcher matcher = STATE_REGEX.matcher( input ); | |
List<ZipCode> zipCodeList = new ArrayList<>(); | |
if ( matcher.find() ) { | |
String city = input.substring( 0, matcher.start() - 1 ); | |
city = city.replaceAll( "[^\\w\\s]", " " ) | |
.trim(); | |
String state = matcher.group( "stateCode" ); | |
zipCodeList = getZipCode( city, state ); | |
} |
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import re | |
STATE_REGEX = re.compile(r'\b(?P<state_code>[a-zA-Z]{2})$') | |
match = STATE_REGEX.search(input) | |
zip_code_list = [] | |
if match is not None: | |
city = input[:match.start()].replace(r'[^\w\s]', ' ').strip() | |
state = match.group('state_code') | |
zip_code_list = get_zip_code(city, state) |
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