Question

I have a string containing several urls. I want to retrieve the urls containing “thistext” and copy them into another variable named “outputlinks”. This is my code.

  String links = "http://www.website1.com/thistext  
                  http://www.website1.com/othertext
                  http://www.website1.com/thistext";


  String outputlinks =""; // ??

Answer 1

Assuming you meant:

String links = "http://www.website1.com/thistext\n" + 
               "http://www.website1.com/othertext\n" +
               "http://www.website1.com/thistext";

Then you can do:

public static void main(String[] args) {
    String links = "http://www.website1.com/thistext\n" + 
                   "http://www.website1.com/othertext\n" +
                   "http://www.website1.com/thistext";
    String[] linksArray = links.split("\n");

    for (String link : linksArray) {
        if (link.contains("thistext")) {
            System.out.println(link);
        }
    }

}