Named Capturing Group in JDK7 RegEx (Xueming Shen's Oracle Blog)

The newly added RegEx constructs to support the named capturing group are:

(1) (?<NAME>X) to define a named group NAME"                     
(2) \\k<Name> to backref a named group "NAME"                  
(3) <$<NAME> to reference to captured group in matcher's replacement str
(4) group(String NAME) to return the captured input subsequence by the given "named group"

With these new constructs, now you can write something like
    String pStr = "0x(?<bytes>\\\\p{XDigit}{1,4})\\\\s++u\\\\+(?<char>\\\\p{XDigit}{4})(?:\\\\s++)?";
    Matcher m = Pattern.compile(pStr).matcher(INPUTTEXT);
    if (m.matches()) {
        int bs = Integer.valueOf(m.group("bytes"), 16);
        int c =  Integer.valueOf(m.group("char"), 16);
        System.out.printf("[%x] -> [%04x]%n", bs, c);
    }

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