So regular expressions seem to match on the longest possible match. For instance:
public static void main(String[] args) {
String s = "ClarkRalphKentGuyGreenGardnerClarkSupermanKent";
Pattern p = Pattern.compile("Clark.*Kent", Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE);
Matcher myMatcher = ...
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I have simple regex
"\".*\""
for me its says select everything between " and ", but it also catches
"text") != -1 || file.indexOf(".exe"
for me its two strings, for regex its one. how can ... |
How do I match the following string?
http://localhost:8080/MenuTest/index.action
The regex should return true if it contains "MenuTest" in the above pattern.
Cheers
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I want to replace the question mark (?) in a string with some other words. What is the regular expression for question mark.
For example, I want to replace question mark in ... |
Is there any way to use raw strings in Java (without escape sequences)?
(I'm writing a fair amount of regex code and raw strings would make my code immensely more readable)
I understand ... |
Here are some input samples:
1, 2, 3
'a', 'b', 'c'
'a','b','c'
1, 'a', 'b'
Strings have single quotes around them, number don't. In strings, double single quote '' (that's two times ') is the escape ... |
How to match the following sequence:
You wound DUMMY TARGET for 100 points of damage
but not:
You wound DUMMY TARGET with SKILL for 100 points of damage
with the regular expression:
^You wound ([\\w\\s]+)(?!with) for ...
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I want to parse a HTML code and create objects from their text representation in table. I have several columns and I want to save context of certain columns on every ... |
i want how to code for get only link from string using regex or anyothers.
here the following is java code:
String aas = "window.open("+"\""+"http://www.example.com/jscript/jex5.htm"+"\""+")"+"\n"+"window.open("+"\""+"http://www.example.com/jscript/jex5.htm"+"\""+")";
how to get the link http://www.example.com/jscript/jex5.htm
thanks ... |
I need to tokenize some strings which will be splitted of according to operators like = and !=. I was successful using regex until the string has != operator. In my ... |
How can I parse a strings like :
name1="val1" name2="val2" name3="val3"
I cannot use split(\s+) as it can be name = "val 1".
I am doing java but ... |
String s= "(See <a href=\"/wiki/Grass_fed_beef\" title=\"Grass fed beef\" " +
"class=\"mw-redirect\">grass fed beef.) They have been used for " +
...
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I need to split this line string in each line, I need to get the third word(film name) but as you see the delimeter is one big blank character in some ... |
I have the following html code segment:
<br>
Date: 2010-06-20, 1:37AM PDT<br>
...
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i dont know how to generate a regex that can represent empty string in java
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First, I need to read a binary String from file into memory - how ?
To read I tried nio.CharBuffer, and then byte[].
But later I need to get a binary String with ... |
Ok, so I know this question has been asked in different forms several times, but I am having trouble with specific syntax. I have a large string which contains html snippets. ... |
In Java there are a bunch of methods that all have to do with manipulating Strings.
The simplest example is the String.split("something") method.
Now the actual definition of many of those methods is ... |
I have the followings string:
String l = "1. [](a+b)\n2. (-(q)*<>(r))\n3. 00(d)\n4. (a+-b)";
String s = "1. [](a+b)\n2. 00(d)"
First string is a expresions list. Sencond string is a expresions subset of first string, ... |
I am trying to print out lines from a file which match a particular pattern in java.
I am using the Pattern class for doing this.
I tried putting the patter as "[harry]" ... |
Is there any way to to interpret a string such as "hello\r\n\world" into a string where \r\n has been converted into their actual literal values.
The scenario is that a user types ... |
I have this regex which is supposed to remove sentence delimiters(. and ?):
sentence = sentence.replaceAll("\\.|\\?$","");
It works fine it converts
"I am Java developer." to "I am Java developer"
"Am I a Java developer?" ... |
I want to capture the index of a particular String in the input. That String may be enclosed with single quote or double quotes (sometimes no quotes). How can I capture ... |
So I am looking through some legacy code and finding instance where they do this:
if ((name == null) || (name.matches("\\s*")))
.. do something
Ignore for the moment that the .matches(..) ... |
Is there a way to use a Java regex to change a String to be of a certain format? For example, I have an input String containing a date & ... |
I have a String that has data such as:
String data = "Some information and then value1=17561.2 and then value2=15672.2"
How do I return 17561.2 most efficiently in Java?
String queryString = "value1";
while data.charAt(outputStr.indexOf(queryString)+queryString.length()) ...
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Hi I have the following text:
SMWABCCA
ABCCAEZZRHM
NABCCAYJG
XABCCA
ABCCADK
ABCCASKIYRH
ABCCAKY
PQABCCAK
ABCCAKQ
This method takes a regex in out by the user and SHOULD print out the Strings it applies ... |
i have a regex that is half working to count all strings which have odd numbers of X's.
^[^X]*X(X{2}|[^X])*$
This works for nearly all cases:
X
XXX
XAA
AXXX
AAAX etc
but fails when typing something like:
XAXAXA
I need an ... |
I need to write a Java program that transform a CSV file into an array list.
A CSV line looks like this:
5/3/2010,"Behrens, Michael Lakeside Apts","Lisle, IL 60532",PD: Noise or domestic reports for ... |
I want to convert an incoming user string into a regular expression, and the incoming string may contain whitespace. Is there a way to ignore all whitespace within the string?
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I'm trying to validate a simple arithmetic expression to insure it fits within the format operand operator operand : 234.34 + 5. I figured out how to validate this easy ... |
How to retrieve the quoted value of a property.
suppose you have some expression like:
[html:text property="pqrs" styleClass="text" style="width:200px"].
And now i want to retrieve the value of property, styleclass and style ie ... |
- What is available: a string of unkown format, current date.
- What can be provided: date regexp
- What needs to be done: parse string according to specified date regexp and obtain date
Details: I'm actually ... |
I want to cut the string using regexp, but not to cut the regexp part...
String path ="house/room/cabinet/my_books/bought/2011/adventure/Black-Ship01/312 pages/...";
String[] substract=path.split("my_");
path=substract1[1].toString();// books/bought/2011/adventure/Black-Ship01/312 pages/...
String[] substract2=path.split("-Ship.."); //split using -Ship and two random simbols
path=substract[1].toString();
RESULT: ...
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I am working with a diff library in java that outputs diffs with square brackets around them where multiple diffs of the same type exist and no square brackets for diffs ... |
Possible Duplicate:
java regex : getting a substring from a string which can vary
Hi,
I have an input String as - "Bangalore,Karnataka=India". Sometimes the String can ... |
Get these strings:
00543515703528
00582124628575
0034911320020
0034911320020
005217721320739
0902345623
067913187056
00543515703528
Apply this exp in java: ^(06700|067|00)([0-9]*).
My intention is to remove leading "06700, 067 and 00" from the beggining of the string.
It is all cool in java, group 2 always ... |
A program that I'm writing (in Java) gets input data made up of three kinds of parts, separated by a slash /. The parts can be one of the following:
- A name ...
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Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("([^\\d.]|[\\d.]++)");
String[] equation = pattern.split("5+3--323");
System.out.println(equation.length);
I'm trying to break apart numbers (could be groups) and nonnumbers, in ... |
I guess this is simple, but I am quite bad at this.
I want to replace the following strings:
chrome, internet explorer, mozlla, opera
or
john, jack, jill, bill
with
?, ?, ?, ?
I need a ... |
I have a string. How I can check if the string is a regular expression or contains regular expression or it is a normal string?
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I'm trying to replace a part of a string. The part contains some special characters:
#L(inches)=24#
I know replaceFirst is regex driven but I can't seem to create a regular expression that matches ... |
I'm trying to extract the value from the exception by using regular expression in Java. But the string is too complicated and long (all in one line):
ReturnCode={Val=9002;SubVal=9203;Text=Subscriber not found};Message=Subscriber ... |
This is my first time posting here, but I've found a lot of answers here, which is awesome.
I'm currently trying to grab an IRC channel from a string, and the IRC ... |
In my Java app I have a "template string", say, "This record's name is : %%%NAME%%%."
I want to loop through a list and for each iteration, print out a "customized version" ... |
I have a large string in the following format -
<a href="12345.html"><a href="12345.html"><a href="12345.html"><a href="12345.html">
<a href="12345.html"><a href="12345.html"><a href="12345.html"><a href="12345.html">
Id like to store all occurances of ... |
I have a list of arbitrary length of Type String, I need to ensure each String element in the list is alphanumerical or numerical with no spaces and special characters such ... |
I have 5 strings "a,b,c,d,e" in a drop down,i am writing a testcase where i am checking if the user has selected any of the five then insert into DB,currently i ... |
Is there an NOT operator in Regexes?
Like in that string : "(2001) (asdf) (dasd1123_asd 21.01.2011 zqge)(dzqge) name (20019)"
I want to delete all \([0-9a-zA-z _\.\-:]*\) but not the one where it is ... |
how can I create simple matrix for String that could be contains following combinations
123456 ABC
123456AB1
123456AB12
123456AB123
123456
for example
if ("\\d + \\d + \\d + \\d + \\d + \\d ...
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Hi please help me out in getting regular expression for the
following requirement
I have string type as
String vStr = "Every 1 nature(s) - Universe: (Air,Earth,Water sea,Fire)";
String sStr = "Every 1 form(s) - ...
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In followup to my previous question
Hundreds of RegEx on one string
I ended up with a regex like following
(section1:|section2:|section3:|section[s]?4:|(special section:|it has:|synonyms:)).*?(?=section1:|section2:|section3:|section[s]?4:|(special section:|it has:|synonyms:)|$)
section section in regex search
The regex that ... |
Possible Duplicate:
regular expression to check if string is valid XML
I am looking Regular Expression to check String is Valid XHTML or not
example
<h2>Legal HTML Entity ...
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I need to build a regular expression in java which stratify the below criteria
- Length of string must be 6-50 characters.
- It must not contain spaces.
- It can contain letters, numbers and the following ...
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What is the regular expression for the following special characters in SOLR.
,~,!,@,Double Quotes,Single Quote,Brackets,? and for every special characters.
My code is:
<fieldType name="Custom_sort" class="solr.TextField" sortMissingFirst="true" sortMissingLast="true" positionIncrementGap="100" autoGeneratePhraseQueries="true">
...
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I need help creating a regular expression that will parse the following string :
09-22-11 12:58:40 SEVERE ...ractBlobAodCommand:104 ...
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I'm developing in Java and I have a long string of text which contains all the information I need about a particular DVD. (It's the scan output from HandBrakeCLI). I need ... |
I have a user supplied string, that I then need to turn into a Regular Expression where their string is treated as a literal, then I append a pre-written regular expression ... |
I'm trying to count the number of 0s in a string of numbers. Not exactly just the character 0, but the number zero. e.g. I want to count 0, 0.0, 0.000 ... |
I want to accept only % symbol(optional) as a string variable with a number, as in input as percentage. E.G, 1000% or 100% or maybe 2000% or plain string input as ... |
In a huge way related to finding matches inside pipes using java regexp
I tried getting the string inside the pipes but not around. for example, i input this.
|asd|qwe|zxc|||
Using split ... |
I have a FileInputStream who reads a file which somewhere contains a string subset looking like:
...
OperatorSpecific(XXX)
{
Customer(someContent)
...
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Given a pattern, e.g. with regular expression "\\s/\\*@.+@\\*/\\s", and a string, is there a way to get the index of the first occurrance of this pattern in the string? It seems indexOf() in String class can only deal with concrete str as parameter, rather than a regular expression or a pattern. Thanks, |
Hi guys, Is there a way to make strings safe for regex. What I mean is: We have an application that uses regex to do some pattern finding. However, we don't want anything the user enters to interfere with this pattern finding. So, what's happening is that some of the characters used by the user are creating regex searches (and throwing ... |
I'm looking for ideas for a program that I'm modifying that does an edit function on groups of files. The data is html and the edits are to change the HREF= that are to a server engine as query strings to be changed to local references. For example HREF="thesite/engine.php?id=22&topic=345". I want to change this to HREF="Topic345/22.html". I'm trying to use regex ... |
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Hello, Suppose I have String that always looks like this: ,,,,.... I would like to get all the text which starts at the 4th "," from the end till the end. I know how to do it using String manipulations (substring, replace ect) but I am looking for more elegant way using regular expressions. Anyone can suggest a solution? [ December ... |
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hi, I have a string "Tracking Number|Carrier" in which im looking for regex "|". On windows platform with java 1.5.0_11 im able to successfully match using regex-string as "\\|". But the same regexstirng on same datastring is not working on Linux with java 1.5.0_08 Let me know if this really due to java version and platform mismatch or internally there is ... |
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Hi all, I need to compare two Strings. String a = "{xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx}"; // constant String b; // b will vary during execution but have the same length and format only with various characters instead of 'x'. I have written: if (!a.equals(b)) ...in my code. I have been advised that this test could be improved upon by using Regex expressions - somehow! ... |
hello friends . i wanted to read a string from text file "MRN 123456789" . This text is actually obtained from or extracted from a pdf file to text file using pjtext jar file . while extracting to text file it will be in its own format . i have written a code to extract the above number using regular expressions ... |
Manepalli, I think the best way to write a complex regular expression is to write smaller ones. Can you figure out how to write a regular expression to match: 1) a single letter 2) any number of letters, numbers and underscores 3) At most one dot 4) A 4-32 character string Once you know how to do all of the above, ... |
Thank you paul for your reply But the regular expression which you gave only takes the integer which is before packets output. But in my case i have to take both the integers before packets input and packets output in one traverse. Hope you understood my problem. final String regex = "([^\\s]*[0-9]*)\\s*packets\\s*input.*"+ "\\s*([^\\s]*[0-9]*)\\s*packets\\s*output"; The above regex is written by me its ... |
Hi, I have a multi line status xml out of which i need to extract the status value. ok Failed i cannot parse it as a xml and i have to use a pattern to extract the "ok" or"failed"(or it could be any other error code which i dont know in advance). can some one please help me to extract the ... |
I am given the the following string that I need to process. frame= 71 fps= 0 q=32.0 size= 12kB time=1.93 bitrate= 50.2kbits/s dup=0 drop=69 I need to grab the text after "time=" In perl I remember being able to easily grab the word or words after the matched pattern. Does Java support such a feature? If I split the stirng, "time=XXXX" ... |
no i think he only wanted the class headline like you originally posted, but i was just curious myself, thanks. what i meant was, so that the program would recognize all forms of H1 i thought that * indicates any character or no character, but i guess thats not correct |
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Hi people, I am currently working on a program where I need to parse a file (or any input stream) line by line. I then need to parse every line for arguments. Each line is formatted similar to how arguments are passed to the command line. The regular expression needs to split every line by any encountered whitespace, but needs to ... |
For fairly simple regex-es, something can easily be constructed, but I'm pretty sure there is no such tool that can generate a String from any regex (including look arounds, and what not). The question is asked from time to time at the "Perl monastery" (that's the place the true regex-wizards come together!). Checkout what they have to say about it: [http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=284513] ... |
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Yes, I am working with sort of xml. Yes, solution to this using xslt would also work. I actually tried to create the "Document" object using the string and got some exception. How this can be done? Do I need to place tag? In my case its not possible for me to format this as a proper XML. I ... |
hi, I have a string "Tracking Number|Carrier" in which im looking for regex "|". On windows platform with java 1.5.0_11 im able to successfully match using regex-string as " |". But the same regexstirng on same datastring is not working on Linux with java 1.5.0_08 Let me know if this really due to java version and platform mismatch or internally there ... |
Hi everybody, I'm having a bit of a hard time figuring out a string problem, and I'd be much obliged if anybody could give me ideas. I have a set of strings like this (all of them are in the same set, they're separated and organized here for clarity): One Two Three One Two Two Three One Six Four ... |
I know how to run an regular expression and return a boolean if the pattern is matched. How do I return the actual string that is matched? e,g The is string is: "fasfasf safas 12345 rgrg" My regex matches 12345 I want to return 12345 as a string rather than a boolean stating the match was sucesfull. Thanks |
Hi folks, I have a regular expression say abcd[a-z]\\\.[0-9] . ( please ignore one '\') For this string i know that following string matches successfully 1. abca.0 2. abcb.1 3. abcz.9 ......etc n number of combination are possible. is there any algorithm which will create some randomn strings from a regular expression. input to algorithm : some string pattern output to ... |
I think matches() tests the entire input against the regex, so you need the leading .* in order for it to match a string that ends with, say, ".jpg", but I believe that find just searches for a match in the substring, in which case you may need to add a "$" to the end of the regex to indicate you ... |
Parsing a date in one format and then displaying it another screams (Simple)DateFormat to me. If this is homework and you specifically have to use a regex, be my guest. If you are solving a real problem, I would look at SimpleDateFormat and define two formats: one that matches the input you expect and one that matches the output you want. ... |
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@sabre150: your note re: CharSequence -- so what you're suggesting is to implement a CharSequence that wraps the file contents, and then use the regexps on the whole thing? I like the idea but it seems like it would only be easy to implement if the file uses a fixed-width character set. Or am I missing something...? |
Hi all, could I get your help in getting this problem solved? I have a string "SELECT MAX([score] ) , SUM([marks] ) from MATH" The column names, score and marks may change and even the number of aggregations used may change. Like more MAX MIN and SUM operations may be added. Can I get the list of column names into a ... |
Hi, Ive try to change the following value "30.02.06" as follows: 1.) "30/02/06" and 2.) "06/02/30" The following code does not works an Idont know whats wrong. String patternForSubstitution = "s/(\\d{2})\\.(\\d{2})\\.(\\d{4})/\\3\\2 1/"; String valueToSubstitute = "30.02.2006"; Pattern p = Pattern.compile(patternForSubstitution); Matcher m = p.matcher(valueToSubstitute); String result = m.replaceAll(valueToSubstitute); I hope anyone can help me, thanks. Jan |
Hello please, Appreciate your help here. I have a field string that wants to find if that exists between two range strings on character basis. Ex: String lower boundary : "ABD" String upper boundary : "ALGKP" field String : "ABE" Now the field string "ABE" exists between "ABD" and "ALGKP". Here the comparison is char-by-char. i.e A is b/w A & ... |
