String Extraction using regex

[Mahesh Murugaiyan]

Hi,

I have a multi line status xml out of which i need to extract the status value.
<status>ok</status>
<status>Failed</status>

i cannot parse it as a xml and i have to use a pattern to extract the "ok" or"failed"(or it could be any other error code which i dont know in advance). can some one please help me to extract the value? I am a novice in regex and googling did not help me much.

[Henry Wong]

I am a novice in regex

How much regex do you know? Do you, at least, know the basics?

Henry

[Mahesh Murugaiyan]

Yes just the basics. I intend to leArn and use it more though.

[Henry Wong]

Mahesh Mak wrote:Yes just the basics. I intend to leArn and use it more though.

Assuming that you know how to do basic matching -- matching the <status> tags along with the meta text in-between (using the find() method).... To extract the text in-between, setup a subgroup for it. You can then get the string with the group() method. See the java.util.regex.Pattern class for more info. See the section about groups and capturing.

Henry

[Campbell Ritchie]

Henry Wong wrote: . . . See the java.util.regex.Pattern class . . .

The Java™ Tutorials section is another good resource.

[Piet Verdriet]

Mahesh Mak wrote:Hi,

I have a multi line status xml out of which i need to extract the status value.
<status>ok</status>
<status>Failed</status>

i cannot parse it as a xml ...

That seems a contradiction: you have XML, but you can't parse it as XML...
Perhaps you meant: "I don't want to parse it as XML". Out of curiosity: why not?