Hello,
I am new at Java and have a problem with regular expressions. Let me describe the issue in 3 steps:
1- I have an english sentence. Some words of the sentence stand between square brackets, for example "I [eat] and [sleep]"
2- I would like to match strings that are in square brackets using regular expressions and here is the code I have written for the task:
Pattern findStringinSquareBrackets = Pattern.compile("\\[.\]");
Matcher matcherOfWordInSquareBrackets = findStringinSquareBrackets.matcher("I [eat] and [sleep]");
//Iteration in the string
while ( matcherOfWordInSquareBrackets.find() )
{
System.out.println("Patter found! :" outputField.getText().substring(matcherOfWordInSquareBrackets.start(), matcherOfWordInSquareBrackets.end())"");
}
3- the result I have after running the code described in 2 is the following: Patter found!: [eat] and [sleep]
That is to say that not only words between square brackets are found but also the substring "and". And this is not what I want.
4- What I would like to have as a result is:
Patter found!: [eat]
Patter found!: [sleep]
That is to say I want to match only the words between the square brackets and nothing else.
Does somebody know how to do this? Any help would be great.
Best regards,
Abou
