I use an regex in Java 6 as this:
"<a .*?some string here</a>"
and expect that .*? will match the smallest char sequence.
However, it matches the longest.

Lets say I have a String var which can contain values of different lengths e.g.
"aaa"  or "bb bb bb".
I want to print them out with System.out.println right-justified with a field width
of 12 chars. If necessary this field should be left padded with blanks.

For lab2 at http://members.shaw.ca/Java2611/ I need to load data (which
should be an array of Strings) from DATA -- that's not the assignment,
but it's a requirement that the data is loaded in this particular
fashion.  It's supposed to not even really be a problem, because we're

Assume I have an already compiled java class in the following location:
D:\java\output\aaa\bbb\ccc\myclass.class
myclass.java contains the following package information:
package aaa.bbb.ccc;

When I perform a compiling operation like:
javac -d build\WEB-INF\classes my.java
and the directory build\WEB-INF\classes does NOT exist then the javac command fails.
Is there really no auto-create-dir-when-necessary option for javac ?

I was reading a Java book tonight and it was talking about the
"package" directive.  I haven't seen it used anywhere.  Did it die
with one of the more recent versions or is it just obsolete but still
available?

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Just trying to learn how Comparator works.
Looking at:
import java.util.*;
public class EmpSort {

I am using Eclipse as the editor to write java servlet running on tomcat.
Which tomcat plugin for Eclipse is the best and the most convenient to use?
Thanks

Assume I have a long, long  CLASSPATH containing approx 20 (or more) *.jar archives.
Is there a way to AUTOMATICALLY check if all mentioned *.jar files really exist?
I could imagine a command (or even java class) which checks this from command line:
java check_cp &CLASSPATH%

here is a method i writte in java
public void aaa(){
       JFileChooser chooser=new JFileChooser();
          chooser.setFileFilter(new FileFilter() {//

I have huge number of data coming to my application through a bacth process
in main frame. Assuming that all this data are available in one table, I
have a PL/SQL procedure to manipulate the data and do some data massaging
and put into three tables.

i m trying to make a program (client/server) of a Automated teller
machine talking with its bank server. i did it using 3 files, a
client,
a server and an application. the program contains 2 bugs that i

In the olden days Fortran had something called G format.  It would
display a number in minimum space, e.g. 7.6 but would revert to
scientfic notation when it had to.
I am looking for something for displaying distances with some perhaps

I am trying to get it to where if the user selects new it will change
the panel, but it isn't working at all.  Nothing changes, but I know
the event method is getting called, because of a print statment.
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