Java Pattern matching regex

Question

I am doing a Pattern match the matcher.matches is coming as false, while the matcher.replaceAll actually finds the pattern and replaces it. Also the matcher.group(1) is returning an exception.

@Test
public void testname() throws Exception {
    Pattern p = Pattern.compile("<DOCUMENT>(.*)</DOCUMENT>");
    Matcher m = p.matcher("<RESPONSE><DOCUMENT>SDFS878SDF87DSF</DOCUMENT></RESPONSE>");
    System.out.println("Why is this false=" + m.matches());
    String s = m.replaceAll("HEY");
    System.out.println("But replaceAll found it="+s);

}

I need the matcher.matches() to return true, and the matcher.group(1) to return "<DOCUMENT>SDFS878SDF87DSF</DOCUMENT>"

Thanks in advance for the help.

syb0rg · Accepted Answer · 2013-04-06 16:56:31Z

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final Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("<DOCUMENT>(.+?)</DOCUMENT>");
final Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher("<RESPONSE><DOCUMENT>SDFS878SDF87DSF</DOCUMENT></RESPONSE>");
if (matcher.find())
{
    System.out.println(matcher.group(1));
    // code to replace and inject new value between the <DOCUMENT> tags
}

edited Apr 6, 2013 at 16:56

answered Apr 6, 2013 at 16:40

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3 Comments

saad Over a year ago

I could have something like this for the xml "<RESPONSE><FILE>...</FILE><DOCUMENT>SDFS878SDF87DSF</DOCUMENT><RATE>...</RATE></RESPONSE>" I need to extract and replace the DOCUMENT section.

syb0rg Over a year ago

Then your question is worded wrong if you want to extract the text between the <DOCUMENT> tags. I'll update my answer.

Jake Walsh Over a year ago

Some more info on matches() vs find() here

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