Question

I have a String like below:

<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="http://dns.net/adj/myhost.com/index;size=5x10;zipc=12345;myzon=north_west;|en;tile=10;ord=7jkllk456?"></script>

I want to access whatever is between src=" and ">. I have developed a code something like below:

        int i=str.indexOf("src=\"");
        str=str.substring(i+5);
        i=str.indexOf("\">");
        str=str.substring(0,i);
        System.out.println(str);

Do you know if this is the right way? My only worry is that sometimes there could be a space between src and = or space between " and > and in this case my code will not work so I was thinking to use Regex. But I am not able to come up with any Regular expression. Do you have any suggestions?

Answer 1

If you don’t want to bother with regex, you can do this:

testString.split("src\\=")[1].split(">")[0]);

Of course it still doesn’t solve your other concerns with different formats, but you can still use an applicable regex (like RanRag’s answer) with the String.split() instead of the 5 lines of code you were using.