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Wildcard match and replace in Java

I want to check a string to see if it contains $wildcard$, and ONLY if it does I want to extract the value between the "$ $", which I'll use to retrieve a replacement. Then replace the full new string (removing the $ $ as well)
Edit: managed to get this working demo
String subject = "test/$name$/something";
String replace = "foo_bar";
Pattern regex = Pattern.compile("(\\$).*?(\\$)");
Matcher m = regex.matcher(subject);
StringBuffer b= new StringBuffer();
while (m.find()) {
String something = m.group(0);
System.out.println(something);
m.appendReplacement(b, replace);
}
m.appendTail(b);
String replaced = b.toString();
System.out.println(replaced);
Gives me the output of
$name$
test/foo_bar/something
I could substring to remove the lead/trailing $ but is there a way to split these into groups so I can just get what is between $ $. But also ensuring that the initial check ensures it has a start and end $

Add another matching group for the content of the tag:
Pattern.compile("(\\$)(.*?)(\\$)");

Remove unnecessary capturing groups from both \\$, set the capturing group on the pattern that matches what is between two $ chars (and the most efficient construct to use here is a negated character class [^$]), and then just grab the value of .group(1):
String subject = "test/$name$/something";
String replace = "foo_bar";
Pattern regex = Pattern.compile("\\$([^$]*)\\$"); // ONLY 1 GROUP ROUND [^$]*
Matcher m = regex.matcher(subject);
StringBuffer b= new StringBuffer();
while (m.find()) {
String something = m.group(1); // ACCESS GROUP 1
System.out.println(something);
m.appendReplacement(b, replace);
}
m.appendTail(b);
String replaced = b.toString();
System.out.println(replaced);
See the Java demo
Result:
name
test/foo_bar/something
Pattern details
\\$ - a $ char
([^$]*) - Capturing group 1 matching zero or more chars other than $ char
\\$ - a $ char.

It has slightly different syntax that you're asking for, but check out Apache Commons Text: https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-text/javadocs/api-release/org/apache/commons/text/StrSubstitutor.html
This will let you do things like:
Map<String,String> substitutions = ImmutableMap.of("name", "foo_bar");
String template = "/test/${name}/something";
StrSubstitutor substitutor = new StrSubstitutor(substitutions);
System.out.println(substitutor.replace(template));
You could build your own Map to populate with your substitution values.

Fetch text till the second parenthesis in Java

input:
str = "(samebib(A, B, 4.0) :- author(A, UniqueVar1), author(B, UniqueVar1), !)"
expected op:
str = "samebib"
As in I need the text between the first 2 open paranthesis.
Code Tried:
str.replaceAll("[\\])},].*", "")
Op:
str = "(samebib(A"
I am not strong in regex. Please, Any suggestions would be helpful.

Try to use this regex \((.*?)\( with pattern like this :
String input = "(samebib(A, B, 4.0) :- author(A, UniqueVar1), author(B, UniqueVar1), !)";
Pattern p1 = Pattern.compile("\\((.*?)\\(");
Matcher m = p1.matcher(input);
if (m.find()) {
System.out.println(m.group(1));
}
Output
samebib
Regex demo
Note
I used if instead of while just to take the first input, if you want to get all the inputs you can use while instead.

Simplest approach would be:
String[] parts = str.split("\\(");
System.out.println(parts[1]);

Replace group 1 of Java regex with out replacing the entire regex

I have a regex pattern that will have only one group. I need to find texts in the input strings that follows the pattern and replace ONLY the match group 1. For example I have the regex pattern and the string to be applied on as shown below. The replacement string is "<---->"
Pattern p = Pattern.compile("\\w*(lan)\\w+");
Matcher m = p.matcher("plan plans lander planitia");
The expected result is
plan p<--->s <--->der p<--->itia
I tried following approaches
String test = "plan plans lander planitia";
Pattern p = Pattern.compile("\\w*(lan)\\w+");
Matcher m = p.matcher(test);
String result = "";
while(m.find()){
result = test.replaceAll(m.group(1),"<--->");
}
System.out.print(result);
This gives result as
p<---> p<--->s <--->der p<--->itia
Another approach
String test = "plan plans lander planitia";
Pattern p = Pattern.compile("\\w*(lan)\\w+");
Matcher m = p.matcher(test);
String result = "";
while(m.find()){
result = test.replaceAll("\\w*(lan)\\w+","<--->");
}
System.out.print(result);
Result is
plan <---> <---> <--->
I have gone through this link. Here the part of the string before the match is always constant and is "foo" but in my case it varies. Also I have looked at this and this but I am unable to apply any on the solutions given to my present scenario.
Any help is appreciated

You need to use the following pattern with capturing groups:
(\w*)lan(\w+)
^-1-^ ^-2-^
and replace with $1<--->$2
See the regex demo
The point is that we use a capturing group around the parts that we want to keep and just match what we want to discard.
Java demo:
String str = "plan plans lander planitia";
System.out.println(str.replaceAll("(\\w*)lan(\\w+)", "$1<--->$2"));
// => plan p<--->s <--->der p<--->itia
If you need to be able to replace the Group 1 and keep the rest, you may use the replace callback method emulation with Matcher#appendReplacement:
String text = "plan plans lander planitia";
String pattern = "\\w*(lan)\\w+";
Pattern r = Pattern.compile(pattern);
Matcher m = r.matcher(text);
StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
while (m.find()) {
m.appendReplacement(sb, m.group(0).replaceFirst(Pattern.quote(m.group(1)), "<--->"));
}
m.appendTail(sb); // append the rest of the contents
System.out.println(sb.toString());
// output => plan p<--->s <--->der p<--->itia
See another Java demo
Here, since we process a match by match, we should only replace the Group 1 contents once with replaceFirst, and since we replace the substring as a literal, we should Pattern.quote it.

To dynamically control the replacement value, use a find() loop with appendReplacement(), finalizing the result with appendTail().
That way you have full control of the replacement value. In your case, the pattern is the following, and you can get the positions indicated.
start(1)
↓ end(1)
↓ ↓
\\w*(lan)\\w+
↑ ↑
start() end()
You can then extract the values to keep.
String input = "plan plans lander planitia";
StringBuffer buf = new StringBuffer();
Matcher m = Pattern.compile("\\w*(lan)\\w+").matcher(input);
while (m.find())
m.appendReplacement(buf, input.substring(m.start(), m.start(1)) +
"<--->" +
input.substring(m.end(1), m.end()));
String output = m.appendTail(buf).toString();
System.out.println(output);
Output
plan p<--->s <--->der p<--->itia
If you don't like that it uses the original string, you can use the matched substring instead.
StringBuffer buf = new StringBuffer();
Matcher m = Pattern.compile("\\w*(lan)\\w+").matcher("plan plans lander planitia");
while (m.find()) {
String match = m.group();
int start = m.start();
m.appendReplacement(buf, match.substring(0, m.start(1) - start) +
"<--->" +
match.substring(m.end(1) - start, m.end() - start));
}
String output = m.appendTail(buf).toString();

While Wiktors explanation of the use of capturing groups is completely correct, you could avoid using them at all. The \\w* at the start of your pattern seems irrelevant, as you want to keep it anyways, so we can simply leave it out of the pattern. The check for a word-character after lan can be done using a lookahead, like (?=\w), so we actually only match lan in a pattern like "lan(?=\\w)" and can do a simple replace with "<--->" (or whatever you like).

I like others solutions. This is slightly optimalised bulletproof version:
public static void main (String [] args) {
int groupPosition = 1;
String replacement = "foo";
Pattern r = Pattern.compile("foo(bar)");
Matcher m = r.matcher("bar1234foobar1234bar");
StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
while (m.find()) {
StringBuffer buf = new StringBuffer(m.group());
buf.replace(m.start(groupPosition)-m.start(), m.end(groupPosition)-m.start(), replacement);
m.appendReplacement(sb, buf.toString());
}
m.appendTail(sb);
System.out.println(sb.toString()); // result is "bar1234foofoo1234bar"
}

Creating regex to extract 4 digit number from string using java

Hi I am trying to build one regex to extract 4 digit number from given string using java. I tried it in following ways:
String mydata = "get the 0025 data from string";
Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("^[0-9]+$");
//Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("^[0-90-90-90-9]+$");
//Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("^[\\d]+$");
//Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("^[\\d\\d\\d\\d]+$");
Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(mydata);
String val = "";
if (matcher.find()) {
System.out.println(matcher.group(1));
val = matcher.group(1);
}
But it's not working properly. How to do this. Need some help. Thank you.

Change you pattern to:
Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("(\\d{4})");
\d is for a digit and the number in {} is the number of digits you want to have.

If you want to end up with 0025,
String mydata = "get the 0025 data from string";
mydata = mydata.replaceAll("\\D", ""); // Replace all non-digits

Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("\\b[0-9]+\\b");
This should do it for you.^$ will compare with the whole string.It will match string with only numbers.

Remove the anchors.. put paranthesis if you want them in group 1:
Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("([0-9]+)"); //"[0-9]{4}" for 4 digit number
And extract out matcher.group(1)

Many better answers, but if you still have to use in the same way.
String mydata = "get the 0025 data from string";
Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("(?<![-.])\\b[0-9]+\\b(?!\\.[0-9])");
Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(mydata);
String val = "";
if (matcher.find()) {
System.out.println(matcher.group(0));
val = matcher.group(0);
}
changed matcher.group(1); to matcher.group(0);

You can go with \d{4} or [0-9]{4} but note that by specifying the ^ at the beginning of regex and $ at the end you're limiting yourself to strings that contain only 4 digits.
My recomendation: Learn some regex basics.

Scanner sc=new Scanner(System.in);
HashMap<String,String> a=new HashMap<>();
ArrayList<String> b=new ArrayList<>();
String s=sc.nextLine();
Pattern p=Pattern.compile("\\d{4}");
Matcher m=p.matcher(s);
while(m.find())
{
String x="";
x=x+(m.group(0));
a.put(x,"0");
b.add(x);
}
System.out.println(a.size());
System.out.println(b);
You can find all matched digit patterns and unique patterns (for unique use Set<String> k=b.keySet();)

If you want to match any number of digits then use pattern like the following:
^\D*(\d+)\D*$
And for exactly 4 digits go for
^\D*(\d{4})\D*$

First and second tocen regex

How could I get the first and the second text in "" from the string?
I could do it with indexOf but this is really boring ((
For example I have a String for parse like: "aaa":"bbbbb"perhapsSomeOtherText
And I d like to get aaa and bbbbb with the help of Regex pattern - this will help me to use it in switch statement and will greatly simplify my app/

If all that you have is colon delimited string just split it:
String str = ...; // colon delimited
String[] parts = str.split(":");
Note, that split() receives regex and compilies it every time. To improve performance of your code you can use Pattern as following:
private static Pattern pColonSplitter = Pattern.compile(":");
// now somewhere in your code:
String[] parts = pColonSplitter.split(str);
If however you want to use pattern for matching and extraction of string fragments in more complicated cases, do it like following:
Pattert p = Patter.compile("(\\w+):(\\w+):");
Matcher m = p.matcher(str);
if (m.find()) {
String a = m.group(1);
String b = m.group(2);
}
Pay attention on brackets that define captured group.

Something like this?
Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("\"([^\"]*)\"");
Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher("\"aaa\":\"bbbbb\"perhapsSomeOtherText");
while (matcher.find()) {
System.out.println(matcher.group(1));
}
Output
aaa
bbbbb

String str = "\"aaa\":\"bbbbb\"perhapsSomeOtherText";
Pattern p = Pattern.compile("\"\\w+\""); // word between ""
Matcher m = p.matcher(str);
while(m.find()){
System.out.println(m.group().replace("\"", ""));
}
output:
aaa
bbbbb

there are several ways to do this
Use StringTokenizer or Scanner with UseDelimiter method