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matches("121345", "\\d{3}.*")

Returns false?

Hi,

Curly braces within a string with double quotes are replaced by the variable or calculated value so your effectively executing this:
matches("121345", "\\d3.*")

You can avoid this by using single quotes:
matches("121345", '\\d{3}.*')

Regards,
Martin

Oh god! Thanks a lot. Sometimes one misses the obvious.