Merge pull request #8321 from silvafabio/master

Pre-compile the regex pattern into a Pattern object and reuse

core-java-modules/core-java-11/src/test/java/com/baeldung/patternreuse/PatternJava11UnitTest.java

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+package com.baeldung.patternreuse;
+
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+
+import java.util.Arrays;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.function.Predicate;
+import java.util.regex.Pattern;
+import java.util.stream.Collectors;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertFalse;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
+
+public class PatternJava11UnitTest {
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenPreCompiledPattern_whenCallAsMatchPredicate_thenReturnMatchPredicateToMatchesThePatternInTheListElements() {
+        List<String> namesToValidate = Arrays.asList("Fabio Silva", "Fabio Luis Silva");
+        Pattern firstLastNamePreCompiledPattern = Pattern.compile("[a-zA-Z]{3,} [a-zA-Z]{3,}");
+
+        Predicate<String> patternAsMatchPredicate = firstLastNamePreCompiledPattern.asMatchPredicate();
+        List<String> validatedNames = namesToValidate.stream()
+                .filter(patternAsMatchPredicate)
+                .collect(Collectors.toList());
+
+        assertTrue(validatedNames.contains("Fabio Silva"));
+        assertFalse(validatedNames.contains("Fabio Luis Silva"));
+    }
+}