It will be useful for you if you need to get text which can be match with your existing regular expression in JAVA.
Recently a had same question. I use Xeger (http://code.google.com/p/xeger/).
First of all you need to download JAR from http://code.google.com/p/xeger/.
Next you need to run in command line next command:
mvn install:install-file -Dfile=~/Downloads/xeger-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar -DgroupId=nl.flotsam -DartifactId=xeger -Dversion=1.0-SNAPSHOT -Dpackaging=jar
There is linux-path to JAR file (~/Downloads/xeger-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar). groupId, artifactId, version …. for xeger-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar file. If you use another you need make some changes in command.
Next you need to copy JAR file in to .m2/repository/nl/flotsam/xeger/1.0-SNAPSHOT dir
in order to use Xeger you need also install in maven repository the dk.brics.automaton package.
Here part of my pom.xml:
<dependency>
<groupId>nl.flotsam</groupId>
<artifactId>xeger</artifactId>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>dk.brics</groupId>
<artifactId>automaton</artifactId>
<version>1.11</version>
</dependency>
If you have some questions you can create a comment for this post.
Have a nice codding!
