How to write Java RegEx for matching a string

Question

I want to include all names which are containing string as ABC at the starting.

eg

ABC_project1
ABC_project2
XYZ-project1

ABC_project1 and ABC_project2 should be included.

Please suggest how to use java regular expression, for example [a-zA-Z]*-[0-9]+

Answer 1

You can use the static method Pattern.matches :

Pattern.matches("ABC.*", "ABC_project1");  // true
Pattern.matches("ABC.*", "XYZ-project1");  // false