Along with lambdas, Java SE 8 brought method references to the Java language. This tutorial offers a brief overview of method references in Java, then gets you started using them with Java code ...

Java’s String class encapsulates an array of bytes. A byte can be converted to a char, in which case, String becomes an array of characters used to compose words, sentences, or any other data you want ...

All other string methods that I'm using (equals, compareTo) are working just fine. The only similarity between these two methods is that they use the pattern class but the string class imports any ...