I'm trying to extract CANseIqFMnf from the URL https://www.instagram.com/p/CANseIqFMnf/ using regex in Android studio. Please help me to get a regex expression eligible for Android Studio.
Here is the code for my method:
String url = "https://www.instagram.com/p/CANseIqFMnf/";
String REGEX = "/p\//";
Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile(REGEX);
Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(url);
boolean match = matcher.matches();
if (match){
Log.e("success", "start = " + matcher.start() + " end = " + matcher.end() );
}else{
Log.e("failed", "failed");
}
But it gives me failed in return!
Method 1
You just need to use replaceAll method in String, no need to compile a pattern and complicate things:
String input = "https://www.instagram.com/p/CANseIqFMnf/";
String output = input.replaceAll("https://www.instagram.com/p/", "").replaceAll("/", "");
Log.v(TAG, output);
Note that the first replaceAll is to remove the url and the second replaceAll is to remove any slashes /
Method 2
Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("https://www.instagram.com/p/(.*?)/");
Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher("https://www.instagram.com/p/CANseIqFMnf/");
while(matcher.find()) {
System.out.println(matcher.group(1));
}
Note that if matcher.find() returns true then if you used modifiers like this in your REGEX (.*?) then the part found there will be in group(1), and group(0) will hold the entire regex match which is in your case the entire url.
Alternate option w/o regex can be implemented in a simpler manner as below using java.nio.file.Paths APIs
public class Url {
public static void main(String[] args) {
String url = "https://www.instagram.com/p/CANseIqFMnf/";
String name = java.nio.file.Paths.get(url).getFileName().toString();
System.out.println(name);
}
}
I'm working on a simple bot for discord and the first pattern reading works fine and I get the results I'm looking for, but the second one doesn't seem to work and I can't figure out why.
Any help would be appreciated
public void onMessageReceived(MessageReceivedEvent event) {
if (event.getMessage().getContent().startsWith("!")) {
String output, newUrl;
String word, strippedWord;
String url = "http://jisho.org/api/v1/search/words?keyword=";
Pattern reading;
Matcher matcher;
word = event.getMessage().getContent();
strippedWord = word.replace("!", "");
newUrl = url + strippedWord;
//Output contains the raw text from jisho
output = getUrlContents(newUrl);
//Searching through the raw text to pull out the first "reading: "
reading = Pattern.compile("\"reading\":\"(.*?)\"");
matcher = reading.matcher(output);
//Searching through the raw text to pull out the first "english_definitions: "
Pattern def = Pattern.compile("\"english_definitions\":[\"(.*?)]");
Matcher matcher2 = def.matcher(output);
event.getTextChannel().sendMessage(matcher2.toString());
if (matcher.find() && matcher2.find()) {
event.getTextChannel().sendMessage("Reading: "+matcher.group(1)).queue();
event.getTextChannel().sendMessage("Definition: "+matcher2.group(1)).queue();
}
else {
event.getTextChannel().sendMessage("Word not found").queue();
}
}
}
You had to escape the [ character to \\[ (once for the Java String and once for the Regex). You also did forget the closing \".
the correct pattern looks like this:
Pattern def = Pattern.compile("\"english_definitions\":\\[\"(.*?)\"]");
At the output, you might want to readd \" and start/end.
event.getTextChannel().sendMessage("Definition: \""+matcher2.group(1) + "\"").queue();
I have a Random string from which i need to match a certain pattern and parse it out.
My String-
{"sid":"zw9cmv1pzybexi","parentId":null,"time":1373271966311,"color":"#e94d57","userId":"255863","st":"comment","type":"section","cType":"parent"},{},null,null,null,null,{"sid":"zwldv1lx4f7ovx","parentId":"zw9cmv1pzybexi","time":1373347545798,"color":"#774697","userId":"5216907","st":"comment","type":"section","cType":"child"},{},null,null,null,null,null,{"sid":"zw76w68c91mhbs","parentId":"zw9cmv1pzybexi","time":1373356224065,"color":"#774697","userId":"5216907","st":"comment","type":"section","cType":"child"},
From the above I want to parse out (using regex) all the values for userId attribute. Can anyone help me out on how to do this ? It is a Random string and not JSON. Can you provide me a regex solution for this ?
Is that a random string ? It looks like JSON to me, and if it is I would recommend a JSON parser in preference to a regexp. The right thing to do when faced with a particular language/grammar is to use the corresponding parser, rather than a (potentially) fragile regexp.
To get the user Ids, you can use this pattern:
String input = "{\"sid\":\"zw9cmv1pzybexi\",\"parentId\":null,\"time\":1373271966311,\"color\":\"#e94d57\",\"userId\":\"255863\",\"st\":\"comment\",\"type\":\"section\",\"cType\":\"parent\"},{},null,null,null,null,{\"sid\":\"zwldv1lx4f7ovx\",\"parentId\":\"zw9cmv1pzybexi\",\"time\":1373347545798,\"color\":\"#774697\",\"userId\":\"5216907\",\"st\":\"comment\",\"type\":\"section\",\"cType\":\"child\"},{},null,null,null,null,null,{\"sid\":\"zw76w68c91mhbs\",\"parentId\":\"zw9cmv1pzybexi\",\"time\":1373356224065,\"color\":\"#774697\",\"userId\":\"5216907\",\"st\":\"comment\",\"type\":\"section\",\"cType\":\"child\"},";
Pattern p = Pattern.compile("\"userId\":\"(.*?)\"");
Matcher m = p.matcher(input);
while (m.find()) {
System.out.println(m.group(1));
}
which outputs:
255863
5216907
5216907
If you want the full string "userId":"xxxx", you can use m.group(); instead of m.group(1);.
Use JSON parser instead of using Regex, your code will be much more readable and maintainable
http://json.org/java/
https://code.google.com/p/json-simple/
As other already told you, it looks like a JSON String, but if you really want to parse this string on your own, you could use this piece of code:
final Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("\"userId\":\"(\\d+)\"");
final Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(line);
while (matcher.find()) {
System.out.println(matcher.group(1));
}
The matcher will match every "userId":"12345" pattern. matcher.group(1) will return every userId, 12345 in this case (matcher.group() without parameter returns the entire group, ie "userId":"12345").
Here's the regex-code you're asking for ..
//assign subject
String subject = "{\"sid\":\"zw9cmv1pzybexi\",\"parentId\":null,\"time\":1373271966311,\"color\":\"#e94d57\",\"userId\":\"255863\",\"st\":\"comment\",\"type\":\"section\",\"cType\":\"parent\"},{},null,null,null,null,{\"sid\":\"zwldv1lx4f7ovx\",\"parentId\":\"zw9cmv1pzybexi\",\"time\":1373347545798,\"color\":\"#774697\",\"userId\":\"5216907\",\"st\":\"comment\",\"type\":\"section\",\"cType\":\"child\"},{},null,null,null,null,null,{\"sid\":\"zw76w68c91mhbs\",\"parentId\":\"zw9cmv1pzybexi\",\"time\":1373356224065,\"color\":\"#774697\",\"userId\":\"5216907\",\"st\":\"comment\",\"type\":\"section\",\"cType\":\"child\"},";
//specify pattern and matcher
Pattern pat = Pattern.compile( "userId\":\"(\\d+)", Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE|Pattern.DOTALL );
Matcher mat = pat.matcher( subject );
//browse all
while ( mat.find() )
{
System.out.println( "result [" + mat.group( 1 ) + "]" );
}
But OF COURSE I´d suggest to solve this using a JSON-Parser like
http://json.org/java/
Greetings
Christopher
It's a JSON format, so you have to use a JSON Parser:
JSONArray array = new JSONArray(yourString);
for (int i=0;i<array.length();i++){
JSONObject jo = inputArray.getJSONObject(i);
userId = jo.getString("userId");
}
EDIT : Regex pattern
"userId"[ :]+((?=\[)\[[^]]*\]|(?=\{)\{[^\}]*\}|\"[^"]*\")
Result :
"userId" : "Some user ID (numeric or letters)"
One common usage for regex is the replacement of the matches with something that is based on the matches.
For example a commit-text with ticket numbers ABC-1234: some text (ABC-1234) has to be replaced with <ABC-1234>: some text (<ABC-1234>) (<> as example for some surroundings.)
This is very simple in Java
String message = "ABC-9913 - Bugfix: Some text. (ABC-9913)";
String finalMessage = message;
Matcher matcher = Pattern.compile("ABC-\\d+").matcher(message);
if (matcher.find()) {
String ticket = matcher.group();
finalMessage = finalMessage.replace(ticket, "<" + ticket + ">");
}
System.out.println(finalMessage);
results in<ABC-9913> - Bugfix: Some text. (<ABC-9913>).
But if there are different matches in the input String, this is different. I tried a slightly different code replacing if (matcher.find()) { with while (matcher.find()) {. The result is messed up with doubled replacements (<<ABC-9913>>).
How can I replace all matching values in an elegant way?
You can simply use replaceAll:
String input = "ABC-1234: some text (ABC-1234)";
System.out.println(input.replaceAll("ABC-\\d+", "<$0>"));
prints:
<ABC-1234>: some text (<ABC-1234>)
$0 is a reference to the matched string.
Java regex reference (see "Groups and capturing").
The problem is that the replace() method transforms the string over and over again.
A better way is to replace one match at a time. The matcher class has an appendReplacement-method for this.
String message = "ABC-9913, ABC-9915 - Bugfix: Some text. (ABC-9913,ABC-9915)";
Matcher matcher = Pattern.compile("ABC-\\d+").matcher(message);
StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
while (matcher.find()) {
String ticket = matcher.group();
matcher.appendReplacement(sb, "<" + ticket + ">");
}
matcher.appendTail(sb);
System.out.println(sb);
I have a String like below
String phone = (123) 456-7890
Now I would like my program to verify if that my input is the same pattern as string 'phone'
I did the following
if(phone.contains("([0-9][0-9][0-9]) [0-9][0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]")) {
//display pass
}
else {
//display fail
}
It didn't work. I tried with other combinations too. nothing worked.
Question :
1. How can I achieve this without using 'Pattern' like above?
2. How to do this with pattern. I tried with pattern as below
Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("(\d+)");
Matcher match = pattern.matcher(phone);
if (match.find()) {
//Displaypass
}
String#matches checks if a string matches a pattern:
if (phone.matches("\\(\\d{3}\\) \\d{3}-\\d{4}")) {
//Displaypass
}
The pattern is a regular expression. Therefor I had to escape the round brackets, as they have a special meaning in regex (they denote capturing groups).
contains() only checks if a string contains the substring passed to it.
I'm not going to dive too deeply into regex syntax, but there definitely is something off with your regex.
"([0-9][0-9][0-9]) [0-9][0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]"
it containes ( and ) and those have special meaning. Escape them
"\([0-9][0-9][0-9]\) [0-9][0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]"
and you'll also have to escape your \ for the final
"\\([0-9][0-9][0-9]\\) [0-9][0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]"
You can write like:
Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("\\(\\d{3}\\) \\d{3}-\\d{4}");
Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(sPhoneNumber);
if (matcher.matches()) {
System.out.println("Phone Number Valid");
}
For more information you can visit this article.
It appears that your problem is that you didn't escape the parentheses, so your Regex is failing. Try this:
\([0-9][0-9][0-9]\) [0-9][0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]
This works
String PHONE_REGEX = "[(]\\b[0-9]{3}\\b[)][ ]\\b[0-9]{3}\\b[-]\\b[0-9]{4}\\b";
String phone1 = "(1234) 891-6762";
Boolean b = phone1.matches(PHONE_REGEX);
System.out.println("is e-mail: " + phone1 + " :Valid = " + b);
String phone2 = "(143) 456-7890";
b = phone2.matches(PHONE_REGEX);
System.out.println("is e-mail: " + phone2 + " :Valid = " + b);
Output:
is phone: (1234) 891-6762 :Valid = false
is phone: (143) 456-7890 :Valid = true