How can you study Java and not encounter regular expressions??? Maybe it's time to take the lesson again:P

I was delighted when it was added, though I think it's fair to say that compared to Perl the Java way of working with it is (a bit...) cumbersome. Take for example the following snippet.

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


public class BLA {

  public static final String BLA_PATTERN = "\"([^\"]+?)\",?|([^,]+),?|
+,";
  private static Pattern blaRE;

  public BLA() {
    blaRE = Pattern.compile(BLA_PATTERN);
  }
  
  public List<String> parse(String line) {
    List<String> list = new ArrayList<String>();
    Matcher m = blaRE.matcher(line);
  
    while (m.find()) {
      // do stuff
    }
    return list;
  }
}
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In Perl this would be just one line:)