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Counting the number of groups Java regular expression
You can treat multiple characters as a single unit by capturing them as groups. You just need to place these characters inside a set of parentheses.
You can count the number of groups in the current match using the groupCount() method of the Matcher class. This method calculates the number of capturing groups in the current match and returns it.
Example
import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;
public class Test {
public static void main(String[] args) {
String str1 = "<p>This <b>is</b> an <b>example</b> HTML <b>script</b> where <b>ever</b> alternative <b>word</b> is <b>bold</b></p>.";
//Regular expression to match contents of the bold tags
String regex = "(t(\S+)t)(\s)";
String str = "the words tit tat tweet tostff tact that tilt text. start and end with the letter t ";
//Creating a pattern object
Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile(regex);
//Matching the compiled pattern in the String
Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(str);
while (matcher.find()) {
System.out.println(matcher.group(0));
}
System.out.println("Total capturing groups: "+matcher.groupCount());
}
}Output
tit tat tweet tact that tilt text tart Total capturing groups: 3
Updated on: 13-Jan-2020
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