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Named captured groups Java regular expressions
Named capturing groups allows you to reference the groups by names. Java started supporting captured groups since SE7.
Example
import java.util.Scanner; import java.util.regex.Matcher; import java.util.regex.Pattern; public class ReplaceAll{ public static void main(String[] args) { Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in); System.out.println("Enter input text: "); String input = sc.nextLine(); String regex = "(?<globalCode>[\d]{2})-(?<nationalCode>[\d]{5})-(?<number>[\d]{6})"; //Creating a pattern object Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile(regex); //Matching the compiled pattern in the String Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(input); while (matcher.find()) { System.out.println("Global code: "+matcher.group("globalCode")); System.out.println("National code: "+matcher.group("nationalCode")); System.out.println("Phone number: "+matcher.group("number")); } } }
Output
Enter input text: 91-08955-224558 Global code: 91 National code: 08955 Phone number: 224558
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