Pattern

Synopsis

Compiles a regular expression.

String conversion

Parses the value as a regular expression in Java Regular Expression Format (see Java regexp ).

XML conversion

<param value="PATTERN"/>

or

<param pattern="PATTERN"/>

or

<param regexp="PATTERN"/>

or

<param regex="PATTERN"/>

or

<param>PATTERN</param>

PATTERN is converted into a regular expression pattern as specified by the string conversion.