Question

I have a simple question.
I want to select one or more characters(starting and ending phrase) that is not intersect with a particular word.

Eg : I want select 1234, efghijabcklmn from the next text.

String now   = "abcd";
String next  = "1234abcdefghijabcklmn";

I tried ^abcd, ^(abcd), [^a][^b][^c][^d] nothing works. I know this can be done by splitting and tokenizing. but i want it through regex.

Answer 1

I know this can be done by splitting and tokenizing. but i want it
through regex.

Well, String#split(regex) takes a regex as parameter only. So, why not use it, given that this problem is an ideal candidate of splitting.

String now = "abcd";
String next = "1234abcdefghijabcklmn";

System.out.println(Arrays.toString(next.split(Pattern.quote(now))));