The character classes in Java regular expression is defined using the square brackets "[ ]", this subexpression matches a single character from the specified or, set of possible characters. For example the regular expression [abc] matches a single character a or, b or, c.
The intersection variant of the character class allows you to match a character which is common in the ranges that have intersection relation between them.
An intersection relation between ranges is defined using && i.e. the expression [a-z&&[r-u]] matches a single character from r to u.
Example
import java.util.Scanner; import java.util.regex.Matcher; import java.util.regex.Pattern; public class RegexExample1 { public static void main(String[] args) { Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in); System.out.println("Enter input text: "); String input = sc.nextLine(); String regex = "[a-z&&[r-u]]"; //Creating a pattern object Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile(regex); //Matching the compiled pattern in the String Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(input); int count =0; while (matcher.find()) { count++; } System.out.println("Number of matched characters: "+count); } }
Output
Enter input text: how are you welcome to tutorialspoint Number of matched characters: 9