Upon reaching the end of the input string it will declare failure. ... Later in the article I’ll get into the more involved ways you can optimize regular expressions in Java.

Ignoring the double quotes on either side of the Java representation, it is still clear that Java String treatment forces the regular expression String [$"'nd/] to be represented in Java as [$"'nd/].

In Java, I was surprised by how close the performance was for standard regular expressions to using string primitives. String primitives took 188 ms to process the 100,000 lines. Standard regular ...