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copied!<p>This is a question more about best practices/design patterns than regexps.</p> <p>In short I have 3 values: from, to and the value I want to change. From has to match one of several patterns:</p> <pre><code>XX.X >XX.X >=XX.X <XX.X <=XX.X XX.X-XX.X </code></pre> <p>Whereas To has to be a decimal number. Depending on what value is given in From I have to check whether a value I want to change satisfies the From condition. For example the user inputs "From: >100.00 To: 150.00" means that every value greater than 100.00 should be changed.</p> <p>The regexp itself isn't a problem. The thing is if I match the whole From against one regexp and it passes I still need to check which option was inputted - this will generate at least 5 IFs in my code and every time I want to add another option I will need to add another IF - not cool. Same thing if I were to create 5 Patterns.</p> <p>Now I have a HashMap which holds a pattern as the key and a ValueMatcher as the value. When a user inputs a From value then I match it in a loop against every key in that map and if it matches then I use the corresponding ValueMatcher to actually check if the value that I want to change satisfies the "From" value.</p> <p>This aproach on the other hand requires me to have a HashMap with all the possibilities, a ValueMatcher interface and 5 implementations each with only 1 short "matches" methode. I think it sure is better than the IFs, but still looks like an exaggerated solution.</p> <p>Is there any other way to do it? Or is this how I actually should do it? I really regret that we can't hold methods in a HashMap/pass them as arguments because then I'd only have 1 class with all the matching methodes and store them in a HashMap.</p>

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