Java + Regex (Searching one or more words within quotes)

Question

Hi Everyone,
I have the following text:
The brown "cow" jumped over the "contributor licensing agreement" and went to "Burger King" to order chicken wings.
The text above may change. This is the input text. In the input text, I want to find and print out all phrases that are inbetween quotes. I tried the following:
Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("\"(.*)\"");
Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(paragraph);
while(matcher.find()){
    String theMatch=matcher.group();
    System.err.println("Found: "+theMatch);
}The regex expression works in my regex coach program (which helps me test regex on input strings). In the Java code, however, the application only finds "cow", not "contributor licensing agreement" or "Burger King." What do I need to do in order to find those other two phrases? I want to use this to parse out and find all words or phrases in a document that are inbetween quotes.
What am I doing wrong??
jetcat33

Answer 1

how about using a "reluctant" quantifier "?"
    Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("\".*?\""); // note the question mark
    Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(paragraph);
    while(matcher.find()){
        String theMatch=matcher.group();
        System.err.println("Found: "+theMatch);
    }