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Extract some data using Regex

I'm struggling some time to extract JSON data from one html tag. To be more specific it's a script tag and using JSOUP library I can get data between script tags. But inside there is some JSON data which I can't extract. Here is the tag:
<script type="text/javascript">jwplayer.key="WbtWzGvcRNi6Tk+gtKldIbx+nn6lXZFvKiaO2g==";jwplayer("tvplayer").setup({playlist:[{image: "http://img.canlitvlive.io/yayin/trt1_480.jpg?1509735585",title:"TRT 1 Canlı Yayın - CanliTVLive.io",file : "http://yayin.canlitvlive.io/trt1/live.m3u8?tkn=8JD95lXv9dOUXwtgOTBYfw&tms=1509749985"}],...</script>
I need url from file tag which is inside jwplayer. I tried using regular expression for example I tried somethig like this:
"playlist[\":\\s\\{]+file[\":\\s\\{]+\"([^\"]+)\""
But I don't have much experience with regex and can't figure out right pattern. Can someone help with this? Thanks

I'm guessing you just need some whitespace
file\s*:\s*"(.*?)"
https://regex101.com/r/4HldaP/3

Output string as html in freemarker

So we are storing html in out data model. I need to output this into a freemarker template:
example:
[#assign value = model.value!]
${value}
value = '<p>This is <a href='somelink'>Some link</a></p>'
I have tried [#noescape] but it throws an error saying there is no escape block. see FREEMARKER: avoid escaping HTML chars. This solution did not work for me.

[#noescape] or <#noescape> is only valid when used inside an [#escape] tag. Your data is probably stored with the HTML encoded. You need to get the backend to un-encode the html.
Otherwise you'll need to do something like...
${value?replace(">", ">")?replace("<", "<")}
But that isn't a good approach because it won't catch all the encoded values and shouldn't be done in the view layer.

Cannot escape a quotation(") character when retriveing a string containg quotation inside a string from DB in jsp

I have saved quotation(") in a string using escape character i database. That is working ok. But when i am retrieving the value in a jsp field from database, the string is being ended at the first quotation it gets in the whole string. I am giving an example below:
Lets take a string that i have stored in database as -
" Hello David. This is a "customer"."
Now, i am somehow need to save the string back from databse into a hidden field in a jsp page like below-
<input type="hidden" name="string_from_database" id="string_from_database" value="<%=some varibale that holds the data from database%>">
issue is -
Part of the string is getting exposed (means it is being written on top of the page) which i do not want. In this case,the below phrase is written on the beginning of the jsp page, which i don't want.
customer".
kindly suggest on how to resolve this issue.

Using this function you could replace the quote marks with the html entity variant ". Here's a simple function for it. Hope it fits into your templating system, but should be easy to modify if not.
function escapeQuotes(str){
return str.replace(/"/g,'"');
}
Here's a working fiddle

Use Jstl rather than scriptlets for further Explanation
use EL - Expression Language (${variable}) to get the Value eg. ${welcome}
<c:out value="${some varibale that holds the data from database}"/>

Dynamic file path in assets reverse routing

I am trying to use reverse routing to access static Assets using:
#routes.Assets.at("path", "file")
However I would like to define file as dynamic part as well like:
#for(c <- models.WebContent.find.all) {
<img src="#routes.Assets.at("/contentfiles/useruploads", "#c.picture1")">
}
Statement above however results in HTML code:
<img src="/contentfiles/userupload/#c.picture1">
Where you can see dynamic part #c.picture1 is not interpreted as dynamic filename but is parsed as raw text resulting in broken link. What I am expecting is that both dynamic parts are interpreted as dynamic resulting in eg.:
<img src="/contentfiles/userupload/1776446515.jpg">
How to define it so both dynamic statements are parsed as dynamic?
PS: I have tried to escape it as ##c.picture or $#c.picture with no luck
Thank you

When using variables as a function argument use it w/out # char and also not within quotes, otherwise as you can is it's used as a... String
<img src="#routes.Assets.at("/contentfiles/useruploads", c.picture1)">
The same as in condition:
Use:
#if(foo==bar){...}
NOT
#if(#foo==#bar){...}

Remove special characters java

Hi I'm trying to figure out a way to remove the tags from the results returned from the Google Feed API. Their result is
Breaking \u003cb\u003eNews\u003c/b\u003e Updates
How can we remove these characters?
I'm not sure if RegEx would be better (or worse). Does anyone have an idea on how to remove these? Google does not supply an option to remove tags from the results in Java.

I pull those routinely with
String.replaceAll("\\p{Cntrl}","")

You can use the below regex..
String str = "Breaking \u003cb\u003eNews\u003c/b\u003e Updates";
str = str.replaceAll("\\<(.*)?\\>(.*)\\</\\1\\>", "$2");
System.out.println(str);
OUTPUT: -
Breaking News Updates
\\<(.*)?\\> matches the first opening tag - <b>
\\</\\1\\> matches the corresponding closing tag - </b>
\\1 is used to backreference what was the tag, so that correct pair of tags are matched..
So, <b>news <update></b> -> In this case <update> will not be removed..

The best solution would be to use JSON to convert the data.
JSON.parse(JSON.stringify({a : '<put your string here>'}));
It will be proper as the data you will get from Google API will be in the form of JSON.

This is HTML. \u003cb\u003e translates to <b>.
You'll want to use an HTML parser as HTML is not fully parse-able by a regular expression.
With a library like Jsoup you could do this as.
String data = Jsoup.parse(html).body().text();
This will get you "Breaking News Updates".