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Matcher appendTail() method in Java with Examples
The java.util.regex.Matcher class represents an engine that performs various match operations. There is no constructor for this class, you can create/obtain an object of this class using the matches() method of the class java.util.regex.Pattern.
The appendTail() method of this (Matcher) class accepts a StringBuffer object and append the characters of the input sequence to it.
Example
import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;
public class AppendTail {
public static void main(String[] args) {
String str = "<p>This <b>is</b> an <b>example</b> HTML <b>script</b>.</p>";
//Regular expression to match contents of the bold tags
String regex = "<b>(\S+)</b>";
//Creating a pattern object
Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile(regex);
//Matching the compiled pattern in the String
Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(str);
StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
matcher.appendTail(sb);
while (matcher.find()) {
System.out.println(matcher.group(1));
}
System.out.println("Contents of the StringBuffer: \n"+ sb);
}
}Output
is example script Contents of the StringBuffer: <p>This <b>is</b> an <b>example</b> HTML <b>script</b>.</p>
Updated on: 20-Nov-2019
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