Question

I am not a RegEx expert and just rtying to debug some jUnit code that fails.

So if I am correct this is what we are passing in:

##ALT=<ID=DEL:ME:ALU,Description="Deletion of ALU element">

and this is the line of code that regex will throw exception, but don’t have a deep knowledge of RegEx so I was wondering if you see something wrong with this expression?

pattern = Pattern.compile("((Description=\"[^\"]*\")>");

Than you.

Answer 1

You could try:

pattern = Pattern.compile("((Description=\"[^\"]*\")>)");

In your case you could use something like this to matches against your string:

Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile(".*(Description=\"[^\"]*\")>");
Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher("##ALT=<ID=DEL:ME:ALU,Description=\"Deletion of ALU element\">");
matcher.matches();
System.out.println(matcher.group(1));

This will print out: Description="Deletion of ALU element"