"Is there some easy Java regular expression matching function like String.matches(Collator collator, String pattern, String value)? "
Here's an article from 1999 in which some person apparently decided that they needed to write such a thing themselves.
Warning: the code described in this article appears to be patented, and thus probably isn't acceptable for an Open Source project such as ours. http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-text-searching.html thanks, bryan
