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Reputation: 2027

How to extract patterns that match regex in java

I am working with regex in java. I have a file which contains the following pattern followed and preceded by other text. The pattern:

    Bombay Garden 5995 Mowry Ave Newark, CA (510) 744-6945   
    Bombay Garden 172 E. 3rd Ave. San Mateo, CA (650) 548-9966   
    Bombay Garden 3701 El Camino Real Santa Clara, CA (408) 241-5150

I have the following regex that matches each line. The regex:

(.*?)(\d{1,4})(\s*\w*)*(\w+),(\s*)(CA|AZ|NY)(\s*)(\(?[1-9]\d{2}\)?\s*\d{3}-?\d{4})

This matches one line, but i want to extract the street name, state and the phone number for each of the three branches using Java.

Can anyone help me with this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 152

Answers (1)

Steve P.
Steve P.

Reputation: 14699

You extract the contents of a capturing group by using group() of the Matcher object, and passing it a group number, ie: 

  Matcher m = Pattern.compile(yourRegex).matcher(yourString)
  while (m.find()) 
  {
      System.out.println(m.group(1));
      System.out.println(m.group(2));
      String state = m.group(6);
      ...
  }

Group 0 is the entire pattern. Group 1 is your first capturing group, ie in your case m.group(6) will return the state.

Upvotes: 1

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