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Reputation: 43

How to get the first match String using Regex

I have folowing code:

public class RegexTestPatternMatcher {
  public static final String EXAMPLE_TEST = "This is my first photo.jpg string and this my second photo2.jpg String";

  public static void main(String[] args) {
    Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("\\w+\\.jpg");
    Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(EXAMPLE_TEST);
    // check all occurance
    while (matcher.find()) {
      System.out.println(matcher.group());
    }
  }
}

The Output is:

photo.jpg
photo2.jpg

I would like to select the first match so only photo.jpg, and skip the second photo2.jpg, I tried matcher.group(0), but not worked, Any idea how to do that, Thanks.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 4232

Answers (1)

Pshemo
Pshemo

Reputation: 124215

Stop iterating after first match. Change while to if

if (matcher.find()) {
  System.out.println(matcher.group());
}

Upvotes: 5

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