How to implement a SQL like ‘LIKE’ operator in java?

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.* will match any characters in regular expressions

I think the java syntax would be

"digital".matches(".*ital.*");

And for the single character match just use a single dot.

"digital".matches(".*gi.a.*");

And to match an actual dot, escape it as slash dot

\.

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