Regular Expression Help needed PLease!!

[hariz2410]

HI all

I am very new to java, but i have this problem i got a string e.g

Courses['07001'].Title = "International Students 1";

So i need to extract only the "international Students", i did that by using this expression
String regex = "Courses\\[\'[^\']+\'\\]\\.Title *= *\"([^\"]+)\";";

But the problem now is, say i got string like

Courses['07001'].CO = new Array("MR","","Harish Ram","Not Available","M.R Harish","hotmail.com");

so i need to extract"07001", "MR Harish Ram " and extract "M.RHarish @ hotmail.com" note that i need to add the @ when compiling. got any ideas if you could help me to give a solution of how to retrieve the name and email add seperately...

So my final output should look something like " "07001", "MR Harish Ram","M.RHarish @ hotmail.com""

Help is greatly appreciated

Thanks in advance!!!!!

Please Help!!

harish

[otacon]

Well, a quick solution could be just to use .split(",") instead of regex. It may not the the most elegant solution, but would work for your example. yourString.split(",") would return an array of strings and the last two entries in that array would be "M.R Harish" and "hotmail.com"); which you can easily substring to what you need.

This is a very quick solution, but will only works if your string format does not vary.

More proper way would be, like you suggested, with regex...but I'll let a regex expert tackle that one :)

[hariz2410]

Thanks for the reply, but i need one more thing as well sorry forgot about that my final output should be something like this.
""07001", "MR Harish Ram","M.RHarish @ hotmail.com""

Please help

Thanks in advance

Harish

[otacon]

well, same idea, if yourString is " Courses['07001'].CO = new Array("MR","","Harish Ram","Not Available","M.R Harish","hotmail.com"); " then applying strArray = yourString.split("\"") will be a good start.

strArray[1] will have "Courses['07001'].CO = new Array("
strArray[2] will have "MR"
strArray[6] will have "Harish Ram"
strArray[10] will have "M. R. Harish"
strArray[12] will have "hotmail.com"

then apply the same trick to strArray[1], but with "'" as the split parameter (ex. strArray[1].split("'")) and the second value of that will be "07001".

With that you can piece your final string together.

Again, not as pretty as regex, but an easy solution if you need a quick fix. Hope it helps.

[eRaaaa]

:D

I'm not sure if I understood you correctly, but you could use groups or?
quick (and mybe little dirty :D ) :

String regex = "Courses\\['(\\d+)'\\]\\..+ = new Array\\((.*?)\",(.*?),\"(.*?),(.*?),(.*?)\",\"(.*?)\\)";

so you could use group(1) to group(7) and you will get

07001
"MR
""
Harish Ram"
"Not Available"
"M.R Harish
hotmail.com"

(some quote signs are wrong because : see next :D )
the full code:

		String s = "Courses['07001'].CO = new Array(\"MR\",\"\",\"Harish Ram\",\"Not Available\",\"M.R Harish\",\"hotmail.com\")";
		String regex = "Courses\\['(\\d+)'\\]\\..+ = new Array\\((.*?)\",(.*?),\"(.*?),(.*?),(.*?)\",\"(.*?)\\)";
		Matcher m = Pattern.compile(regex).matcher(s);
		if(m.find()){
			//System.out.println("\""+m.group(1)+"\""+","+m.group(2)+" "+m.group(4)+","+m.group(6)+" @ "+m.group(7));
			for (int i = 1; i < 8; i++) {
				System.out.println(m.group(i));
			}
		}

the commented line prints

"07001","MR Harish Ram","M.R Harish @ hotmail.com"

is that correct? ;/