[Biojava-l] Regular expressions

[David Huen]

On Thursday 15 Jul 2004 18:03, Nicholas Lee Stiffler wrote:
> I am using the regex class in biojava 1.4pre, and I want use it to search
> only for sequences that start with a certain motif.  For example, I tried
> using the regex ^gty but it threw
> org.biojava.utils.regex.RegexException: unexpected symbol ^
> Is this a bug or do I need to input it differently?
>
That looks like a bug in the PatternChecker - it checks the input pattern is 
acceptable and also expands some ambiguity symbols etc.  It seems to be too 
fussy on this symbol.  I'll patch it.

Rgds,
David Huen