Question

Given a string:

hello"this is a test"this is another test"etc

How can I write a regex that selects anything before " then move onwards to the next match? So at the end, I get following matches:

hello
this is a test
this is another test
etc

Answer 1

You might be looking for something like [^"]+

repeat once or more, any character which is not a "

example:

String s = "hello\"this is a test\"this is another test\"etc";
Matcher matcher = Pattern.compile("[^\"]+").matcher(s);
while (matcher.find()) {
    System.out.println(s.substring(matcher.start(),matcher.end()));
}

will produce:

hello
this is a test
this is another test
etc