Regular Expression Issue

Question

Dear Gurus,
I had a requirement to read a file and display the words btween two words..
for an example..
I need a good friend to share my sarrow things. I need a good friend to share my Loveable things.
here i need to extract words between good and Loveable
for this i wrote an regular expression
Pattern p = Pattern.compile("(?<=\\bgood\\b).*?(?=\\bloveable)\\b)");this is working fine
Now I need to extract the words between good and loveable or sarrow
I read from regex tutorial to use | symbol for OR operations.
Can any one help to solve this issue.
Thanks and Regards,
Durai S E
Edited by: user10734545 on Dec 12, 2011 12:30 AM
Edited by: EJP on 12/12/2011 19:30: code tags

Answer 1

user10734545 wrote:
for this i wrote an regular expression
Pattern p = Pattern.compile("(?<=\\bgood\\b).*?(?=\\bloveable)\\b)");
Sometimes a simple solutions is best:  @Test
    public void testGoodLovable() throws Exception {
        Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("good\\s+(\\w+)\\s+lovable");
        Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher("good test lovable");
        if (matcher.find()) {
            Assert.assertEquals("test", matcher.group(1));
        } else {
            Assert.fail("pattern not matched");
    }bye
TPD