Question

I am converting from .NET to Java and the following .NET Regular expression fails.

(?<before>.{0,10})" + mSearchTerm + "(?<after>.{0,255})

There are 2 named groups here, but the named part is not important to me.

Answer 1

The named groups are the only thing I see that won’t work in Java, but you seem to have left off some quotation marks. Try this:

Pattern p = Pattern.compile("(.{0,10})" + mSearchTerm + "(.{0,255})");