regular expression in Java

Re: regular expression in Java

[email protected] (Ye Zhou) wrote in
news:c4d0da26.0 307301650.6ec8a [email protected] gle.com:
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> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to convert a perl program into java and I got stuck in the
> regular expression part. It seems like java.util.regex couldn't help
> much. I checked with Apache regexp and didn't get the right way to do
> it either. Therefore, I am writing to see if someone could throw a
> light on how to do a translation on the statement below.
>
> if ($xml =~
> m/^.*?<Transactio n.*?instanceId= "(.*?)".*?recei ver="(.*?)".*?[/color]
sender="(.[color=blue]
> *?)".*?transact ionId="(.*?)".* ?/s) {
> return ($1, $4, $3, $2);
>
> Your help is greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Ye[/color]


Try this...

String regex = ".*?<Transactio n.*?instanceId= "(.*?)".*?recei ver="(.*?)".
*?sender="(.> *?)".*?transact ionId="(.*?)".* ?";

Pattern p = Pattern.compile (regex);
Matcher m = pattern.match(x ml);
if (m.matches())
return new String[] {m.group(1), m.group(4), m.group(3), m.group(2)};


Cheers,
Alex