Capture regex match as a variable?

Question

Hello!
I have this program and I basically want to match a part of a string and grab the match as a variable. In this case, the string I need to parse is 'foo'.
Here is what I have:
public class Test
     public static void main(String[] args)
                // link <link> format
          String foo = "http://www.foo.com <http://www.foo.com>";
          String the_regex = "\\<(http://[^\\>]*)\\>";
          String the_replacement = "<a href=\"$1\">$1</a>";
          System.out.println(foo.replaceAll(the_regex,the_replacement));
}$1 (sorta like PERL) should be the captured text from the_regex
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Dubwai - I think I got it, thanks for the guidance. Here is what I used, and it seems to work. Thanks!
public class Test
     public static void main(String[] args)
          String foo = "http://www.foo.com <http://www.boo.com>";
          String regex="\\<(http://[^\\>]*)\\>";
       Pattern p = Pattern.compile(regex);
       Matcher m1 = p.matcher(foo);
       while (m1.find())
         System.out.println("The site = " + m1.group(1));
}