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Finding a Match Within Another Match Java regular expressions
To match a pattern within another match you need to compile the regular expression to match the outer pattern find the match retrieve the results and pass the results as input to the inner Matcher object.
Example
import java.util.Scanner;
import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;
public class MatcherExample {
public static void main(String[] args) {
int start = 0, len = -1;
Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);
System.out.println("Enter input text: ");
String input = sc.nextLine();
String regexOuter = "<b>(.*?)</b>";
String regexInner = "\d+";
//Creating a pattern object
Pattern patternOuter = Pattern.compile(regexOuter);
Pattern patternInner = Pattern.compile(regexInner);
//Matching the compiled pattern in the String
Matcher outerMatcher = patternOuter.matcher(input);
while (outerMatcher.find()) {
Matcher innerMatcher = patternInner.matcher(outerMatcher.group(1));
while(innerMatcher.find()){
System.out.println(innerMatcher.group());
}
}
}
}Output
Enter input text: This is sample HTML data 123 sample text hello 123
Updated on: 13-Jan-2020
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