String searching algorithms in Java

Question

I am doing string matching with big amount of data.

EDIT: I am matching words contained in a big list with some ontology text files. I take each file from ontology,

Answer 1

Regular expressions are definitely your best bet. They can be a little bit messy to write, but they're the only way that you can have a looser matching without having an incomprehensible series of if/else or switch statements.

Plus, they'll be a lot faster than the alternative.