Java parsing with Matcher and Regex

Question

I have a very simple problem but I am new to Java Matcher and I am having a hard time figuring out how to use it for my specific problem.

I have a string which is something like this <not needed content>src="url"<not needed content>src="url2"<not needed content>

Where <'not needed content'> are the things I want to ignore in my string. I basically want to extract the URLs from the string.

My code currently looks like this

Pattern MY_PATTERN = Pattern.compile("\\src=\"(.*?)\\\"");
Matcher m = MY_PATTERN.matcher(content);
String s = "something";
while (m.find()) {
   s = m.group(1);
}

I apologize for such basic, and possibly duplicate question.

Thank you.

I could use an HTML parser, but this is not a full HTML page, this is a small part of an RSS feed which I was hoping to parse without anything fancy. — AlexIIP
– AlexIIP, Commented Feb 19, 2013 at 8:19
The beginning of your Pattern "\\src means one whitespace followed by rc. This will never match src as s is not whitespace. — jlordo
– jlordo, Commented Feb 19, 2013 at 8:22

Orabîg · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-19 08:20:14Z

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Why didn't you try a simplier pattern ? Like this one :

Pattern.compile("src=\"(.*?)\"");

(Not tested, but should be better)

answered Feb 19, 2013 at 8:20

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AlexIIP Over a year ago

wow.... that works perfectly, I can't believe I tried so hard. Ill give you answer as soon as I can.

Oscar Mederos · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-19 08:24:10Z

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You can use either of the following regexes:

src="([^"]+)
src="(.+?"

answered Feb 19, 2013 at 8:24

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