Java regex extract data between a href tags

Question

I am trying to extract data between a href tags in a Java string. I can acheive this with replace all and substring and with using indexOf etc.

I would like to know how can I get data using regex.

So basically i am trying to extract data and store in a string or in a list.

String data ="12345";
        String sampleStr ="";
        for(int i=0; i<10; i++) {
         data+=i;
        sampleStr += "<a href=\"javascript:yyy_getDetail(\'"+data+"\')\">"+data+"</a>"+", ";
        }           

        System.out.println(sampleStr);
        String temp = sampleStr.substring(sampleStr.indexOf("\">")+2);

Any suggestion in regard will be appreciated. What should be regex, so i only extract data.

Answer 1

Here is an example for your needs. Note, that the full match will contain the string with anchor tags and your searched content is in the group 1.

String data ="12345";
String sampleStr ="";
for(int i=0; i<10; i++) 
{
 data+=i;
 sampleStr += "<a href=\"javascript:yyy_getDetail(\'"+data+"\')\">"+data+"</a>"+", ";
} 

Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("<a[^>]*>(.*?)</a>");
Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(sampleStr );
while (matcher.find()) 
{
        System.out.println("Result "+ matcher.group(1));
}