regular expression in java compile

Question

this is my regular expression, which I use on command line, but when I put the same expressing on java pattern.compile, it is giving an error

This is my regex /,.*"(.*)",\[6]/

This is how I am trying in java

Pattern p = Pattern.compile("/,.*"(.*)",\[6]/");

but in eclipse it is showing an error, could some one help on this.

Answer 1

You have to escape the double quotes (and possibly the blackslash) using backslashes.

EDIT:

It seems what you want is this

,.*\"(.+)\",\\[6\\]

You don't have to include forward slashes in patterns in Java. If you know you will have something between quotes, use + instead of *, and you have to escape the square brackets, because you want a literal match.