another regex problem...

[arne]

Hi
I've now read that Pattern Javadoc at least 5 times, but I still don't know how to do this. I also googled, but I also haven't found anything about that (probably used the wrong keywords ).
Nah anyways - my Problem:
I've got a Set of Strings and I want to find the first occurence of one of those Strings.
If those Strings were only simple Characters, I could use a simple Character-class (e.g. [abc] ). But now I'm left confused...is this actually possible?

Arne

[Martin Strand]

You can do this: "(string1|string2|string3)", the pipe serves as an "or" operator.

[arne]

thanks