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amicngh
amicngh

Reputation: 7899

Regex to extract column name and values not working

In java I am trying to extract column names and their values using Regex and Matcher but dont know what I am doing wrong here.

    String sql = "INSERT INTO MyTable (column1, column2, column3, column4, column5 ) VALUES (1, 'Hi', 'A,B', '', null)";
    String pattern = "INSERT INTO.*((\\w)+).*\\((.*)\\).*VALUES.*\\((.*)\\)";

    Pattern r = Pattern.compile(pattern);

    Matcher m = r.matcher(sql);
    if (m.find()) {
        System.out.println("Found value: " + m.group(0));
        System.out.println("Found value: " + m.group(1));
        System.out.println("Found value: " + m.group(2));
    } else {
        System.out.println("NO MATCH");
    }

Expectation:

Group-1 = column1, column2, column3, column4, column5
Group-2 = 1, 'Hi', 'A,B', '', null

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1260

Answers (2)

Andrew Magerman
Andrew Magerman

Reputation: 1413

Try this

"INSERT INTO.*\\((.*)\\).*VALUES.*\\((.*)\\)"

The mistake you were doing is not escaping the brackets. Without the escaping \( Regex assumes you are starting a group.

Upvotes: 1

anubhava
anubhava

Reputation: 785256

Don't use greedy .* in your regex. You can use this regex:

\bINSERT\s+INTO\s+\S+\s*\(([^)]+)\)\s*VALUES\s*\(([^)]+)\)

In Java:

String regex = "\\bINSERT\\s+INTO\\s+\\S+\\s*\\(([^)]+)\\)\\s*VALUES\\s*\\(([^)]+)\\)";

This will give:

Group 1: "column1, column2, column3, column4, column5 "
Group 2: "1, 'Hi', 'A,B', '', null"

RegEx Demo

Upvotes: 2

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