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Program: How to capture or extract a value(s) from text using regular expression in java?


Description:

The below example shows how to extract a specific pattern from a large text. The example tries to capture any IP addresses in the given text.


Code:
package com.java2novice.regex;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;

public class MyGroupRegex {

	private static Pattern ptn = 
			Pattern.compile("(\\d{1,3})\\.(\\d{1,3})\\.(\\d{1,3})\\.(\\d{1,3})");
	
	public static List<String> captureValues(String largeText){
		Matcher mtch = ptn.matcher(largeText);
		List<String> ips = new ArrayList<String>();
		while(mtch.find()){
			ips.add(mtch.group());
		}
		return ips;
	}
	
	public static void main(String a[]){
		String str = "Hi my machine IP is 10.20.30.40 and i would like "+
			"to access port 80 from the host 23.12.56.34, which internally"+
			"connects to 3.90.23.65. Please process the request";
		System.out.println(captureValues(str));
	}
}

Output:
[10.20.30.40, 23.12.56.34, 3.90.23.65]
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I'm Nataraja Gootooru, programmer by profession and passionate about technologies. All examples given here are as simple as possible to help beginners. The source code is compiled and tested in my dev environment.

If you come across any mistakes or bugs, please email me to [email protected].

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