Question

I am trying to extract values “app_name” and “This is a great app” from the following but do not know how I can do that. I am not able to figure out the regular expression for this.

This is what my input looks like:

<string name = "app_name"> This is a great app </string>

This is not an effort to read values from Strings.xml on to Java code in Android. This is a totally different case, I just want to print out the values.

Answer 1

/<string name="([^"]+)">([^<]+)<\/string>/i

The name attribute (app_name) will be stored in back-reference 1, and the actual string value (This is a great app) will be stored in back-reference 2.

With more information, this regexp can be modified to work in a greater variety of situations, but with the limited information given, it will work, but may not work in all cases.