Patterns

[whosadork]

How do i tell java to look for a pattern??

like for say i enter the text aabba then java will scan it and finish the pattern by outputting aabbaabbaa etc.

[ojn]

Check out String and Pattern classes in the API.

[Eranga]

Read the Java doc for more details. Here is the link.

[Norm]

What is the relationship between: aabba and aabbaabbaa?
How do you generate one from the other?
It would look like the first string is reversed and concatentated to itself.
What does "finish the pattern" mean?

[whosadork]

srry, i meant continue the pattern, like if you entered abbabb then it will find a pattern

[Norm]

entered abbabb then it will find a pattern

So is the pattern for that: abb ?

What is your design or ideas so far?

[Eranga]

I think he wants to find a pattern 'aabba' and modified it to get the output as 'aabbaabbaa'

Better to explain it well, lots of misunderstand here.

[linux0kernel]

i don't understand your means! ~~~
you can print it twice if you entered the 'aabba' ! The pattern is your input something!CODE

Pattern p = Pattern.compile(input);
Matcher m = p.matcher(input);
while(m.find()) {
    System.out.print(input + input);
}
while()

but it's very worthless!

[Eranga]

As Norm says in his last post, it's depends on the design.

The way you explain is not much bad actually. But think if you found the same string 100 times. So how many string objects you have to instantiate. Even Java has garbage collector, I don't think it's a good idea.