Question

I am trying to get the text inside a tag i.e. <text>. I am doing:

Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("(?<=\\<).*(?=\\>)");

I think that this says: any character 0 or more times that before is a < (positive lookbehind) and followed by > (positive lookahead).

Matcher m = pattern.matcher(data);  
if (!m.matches()) continue; //Called in a for loop  

But there is no match for eg the input <text> some other stuff here.

What am I doing wrong here?

Answer 1

Don’t use m.matches() but m.find().

From the JavaDoc on matches():

Attempts to match the entire region against the pattern.