Greedy Qualifier : Greedy « Regular Expressions « Java






Greedy Qualifier


import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;

public class Main  {
  public static void main(String args[]) {
    String regex = "(\\w+)(\\d\\d)(\\w+)";
    Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile(regex);
    String candidate = "X99 asdf 44";

    Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(candidate);
    matcher.find();
    System.out.println(matcher.group(1));
    System.out.println(matcher.group(2));
    System.out.println(matcher.group(3));
  }
}

 








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