how to fetch specific text from inputed string using regex

[kdsutaia]

Hi!
I want to fetch "name" as per the name of the journal.

<JOURNAL> name </JOURNAL>

name will be diff in diff files. I am reading file line by line and sending pattern
<JOURNAL>([-_\\w\\s])</JOURNAL> to match . it matches but it matches whole string.
I want within ( ) bracket as in perl we can get by $1 variable.

thanks in advance.

[JosAH]

Hi!
I want to fetch "name" as per the name of the journal.

<JOURNAL> name </JOURNAL>

name will be diff in diff files. I am reading file line by line and sending pattern
<JOURNAL>([-_\\w\\s])</JOURNAL> to match . it matches but it matches whole string.
I want within ( ) bracket as in perl we can get by $1 variable.

thanks in advance.

You can do exactly the same in Java, i.e. $1 is the first 'capturing group' which
means the leftmost substring in parentheses.

kind regards,

Jos

[kdsutaia]

You can do exactly the same in Java, i.e. $1 is the first 'capturing group' which
means the leftmost substring in parentheses.

kind regards,

Jos

can you give emaple how to write.

[JosAH]

can you give emaple how to write.

Have a look at the find() and group methods in the Matcher class.

Alternatively use the replaceAll method in the String class; it uses
a Pattern and a Matcher for its purpose so the replacement string can be the
"$1" pattern.

kind regards,

Jos