Regex that Will Match a Java Method Declaration

Question

I need a Regex that will match a java method declaration. I have come up with one that will match a method declaration, but it requires the opening bracket of the method to

Answer 1

I'm pretty sure Java's regex engine is greedy by default, meaning that "\w+ +\w+ *\(.*\) *\{" will never match since the .* within the parenthesis will eat everything after the opening paren. I recommend you replace the .* with [^)], this way you it will select all non-closing-paren characters.

NOTE: Mike Stone corrected me in the comments, and since most people don't really open the comments (I know I frequently don't notice them):

Greedy doesn't mean it will never match... but it will eat parens if there are more parens after to satisfy the rest of the regex... so for example "public void foo(int arg) { if (test) { System.exit(0); } }" will not match properly...