Extracting the text between two strings

[vidya]

Hi friends... I have a doubt in extracting the text between two strings. for example:

Begin THE EXCEPTION WAS HANDLED end

Now, How i need to find if the line has 'Begin' at the start and 'end' at the end of the string. after that, i need to extract the text 'THE EXCEPTION WAS HANDLED' alone,and store it somewhere.
How can i do that...?

It would be helpful if someone helps me with this query...

[Aseem]

take whole as one string
and use substring() to take the required string from the whole string.

[Aseem]

public class StringDemo {
public static void main(String[] args){
String string = "Begin THE EXCEPTION WAS HANDLED end";
System.out.println("String : " + string);
String substring = string.substring(0, 5);
System.out.println(substring);
String substring1 = string.substring(31, 35);
System.out.println(substring1);
String substring2 = string.substring(6, 31);
System.out.println(substring2);


}

output wud be:

run:
String : Begin THE EXCEPTION WAS HANDLED end
Begin
end
THE EXCEPTION WAS HANDLED
BUILD SUCCESSFUL (total time: 0 seconds)

[vidya]

Thanks for ur quick reply friend. i got the same idea of sub string previously(using 'regionMatches' method). but what u used here was the offset value to extract the sub string. but if we consider a huge paragraph, where we dont know that offset value, its not possible to use this method to retrieve the string right?

so what can be done for this?

[[RaIdEn]]

well another option you can consider is using split method from the string class.

[Aseem]

There are lots of methods in String class.
For String manipulation, i suggest you to look at method available in String class.

[vidya]

@All

Thanks for ur suggestions. I wil try string class and get back if i find any difficulty.

[Lil_Aziz1]

regex is another alternative.