Thread: String matches() Method in Java

I was working on a program where I used matches method to finish my program. It did work, but afterward, I'm trying to understand the concept of this method correctly. I found this: https://www.w3resource.com/java-tuto...ng_matches.php but I do not understand the use of (.*)?

The * is a wildcard. It basically replaces any value/s.
In the example you shared, the given string value is "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."
You can look at the str.matches in line 6 as.. does the substring "quick brown fox" occur anywhere in my given string value? The answer is yes and that's why the method returns a true boolean value. Same thing happens in line 9. However, the str.matches call returns a false boolean value because the substring "quick brown wolf" is not found in the given string value.
Hope this makes sense.

It does. Thank you