Enables canonical equivalence.

Enables case-insensitive matching.

Permits whitespace and comments in pattern.

Enables literal parsing of the pattern.

Enables Unicode-aware case folding.

Enables the Unicode version of Predefined character classes and POSIX character classes.

Creates a predicate that tests if this pattern matches a given input string.

Creates a predicate that tests if this pattern is found in a given input string.

Compiles the given regular expression into a pattern.

Compiles the given regular expression into a pattern with the given flags.

Returns this pattern's match flags.

Creates a matcher that will match the given input against this pattern.

Compiles the given regular expression and attempts to match the given input against it.

Returns an unmodifiable map from capturing group names to group numbers.

Returns the regular expression from which this pattern was compiled.

Returns a literal pattern String for the specified String.

Splits the given input sequence around matches of this pattern.

Splits the given input sequence around matches of this pattern.

Creates a stream from the given input sequence around matches of this pattern.

Splits the given input sequence around matches of this pattern and returns both the strings and the matching delimiters.

Returns the string representation of this pattern.