Java regex return after first match

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Published on 2011-01-09T04:44:06Z Indexed on 2011/01/09 4:53 UTC
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hi

how do i return after the first match of regular expression? (does the Matcher.find() method do that? )

say I have a string "abcdefgeee". I want to ask the regex engine stop finding immediately after it finds the first match of "e" for example. I am writing a method to return true/false if the pattern is found and i don't want to find the whole string for "e". (I am looking for a regex solution )

thanks

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