Extract values from a String

[Mary Cole]

Hi,

I have a String which is in the following format.

[Thread-52585] tag123 --  [ObjectSystem] [CODE:02223] [NAME:Microsoft Windows] [VERSION:95] [CAT:1347564602868{"Windows is a product of -> MicroSoft"]

IS there a way in Java to extract the value after NAME: , VERSION: and CAT: using REGEX?

Thanks in advance

[Kemal Sokolovic]

Yes. Check java.util.regex.Pattern and java.util.regex.Matcher classes.

[Manoj Kumar Jain]

You can also achieve your goal without using regex. If this is the fixed format for the string just go and look for the end index of the keyword like NAME, VERSION etc. then find out the index of "]" just after this current index and fetch out the value in between the two indexes.

[Winston Gutkowski]

Mary Cole wrote:IS there a way in Java to extract the value after NAME: , VERSION: and CAT: using REGEX?

Yes, but first you think to think about what is the same and what is different about all those searches.

Regex is a pattern matcher, so you need to be looking for patterns, not specific Strings.

Winston