is there any way to search all methods in Java class with regex?
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of course it is possible even it would be a complex regex. but what are you trying to achieve? you can get the list of methods with java reflection much more easily. – Juvanis Jul 26 '13 at 07:42
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1Are you trying to parse a Java code file or what? Regex certainly is the wrong tool for this job. – Daniel Hilgarth Jul 26 '13 at 07:43
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Um, I am really impressed. It's a first time I see regex used as reflection tool. – Leri Jul 26 '13 at 07:43
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You are probably looking for AspectJ Pointcut expressions: http://guptavikas.wordpress.com/2010/04/15/aspectj-pointcut-expressions/ – necromancer Jul 26 '13 at 07:47
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I cannot compile the class due to some data not ready yet, that's why I cannot use java reflection. – Aditya Hadi Jul 26 '13 at 08:00
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@user2621732 it's not clear that regex is the best solution to your problem. If you want more useful help please explain the actual underlying problem. – selig Jul 26 '13 at 08:04
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(public|protected|private|static|\s) +[\w\<\>\[\]]+\s+(\w+) *\([^\)]*\) *(\{?|[^;])
With this you can, but search before ask, because i only have used the search to find this answer ^^.
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3That would not account for comments or strings. And if you copied that expression from somewhere, give the original author credit by linking to the source. – Daniel Hilgarth Jul 26 '13 at 07:44
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http://stackoverflow.com/questions/68633/regex-that-will-match-a-java-method-declaration?rq=1 This is the link where this is discused. Thanks to Georgios Gousios. – Distopic Jul 26 '13 at 07:45
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I still got ` else if (plane == REFLECT_PLANE_XZ)` in the results. Any idea? – Aditya Hadi Jul 26 '13 at 07:57
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try to use only the first part oh the exreg, altaugh is a little suspicious that the string that you paste validate the expression. – Distopic Jul 26 '13 at 08:03
