Java regex substring from certain charater to another character

Question

i'm new here and this is my first question. I researched this topic as best as I could and almost found my solution. I have examples of strings that look like this:

String product = "1 x Winter gloves \"Husky\" - wool(60 dollars)"

I am trying to extract only the product name: Winter gloves "Husky" - wool
I know there are two possible solutions, either with .replaceAll method or with Pattern Matcher.

I tried this:

System.out.println(product.replaceAll(".*x ([^;]*)", "$1"));

output is this :

Winter gloves "Husky" - wool(60 dollars)

I just need to finalize the formula so that the string will "stop" at the first "(" symbol it encounters. This way I will get my desired result: Winter gloves "Husky" - wool

Any help is appreciated. Thanky you.

System.out.println(product.replaceAll(".*x ([^;]*)(\(.*)", "$1")); There is double \\ — Tushar Jajodia
– Tushar Jajodia, Commented Sep 10, 2020 at 9:26

The fourth bird · Accepted Answer · 2020-09-10 09:26:23Z

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You can first match the digit(s) , then x and capture in group 1 matching any char except ( instead of ;

^\d+ x ([^(]*)

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If you want to use replace, you can match the opening till closing parenthesis after it and replace with group 1:

^\d+ x ([^(]*)\([^()]+\)

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String product = "1 x Winter gloves \"Husky\" - wool(60 dollars)";
System.out.println(product.replaceAll("^\\d+ x ([^(]*)\\([^()]+\\)", "$1"));

Output

Winter gloves "Husky" - wool

answered Sep 10, 2020 at 9:26

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