Question

I need to find picture location in HTML text based on regex.

e.g.

The HTML string is:

    <div style='background-image: url(http://www.mydomain.com/images/test.jpg); 
background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: scroll; height: 400px;'>

And I need to define a regex that will find the end location of string that starts with http://www.mydomain.com and finishes with ).

1. What should be the regex?
2. How can I find the end location in java?

Answer 1

I would do something like this to find the url:

String input = "<div style='background-image: url(http://www.mydomain.com/images/test.jpg); \n" +
                "background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: scroll; height: 400px;'>";

Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("image:\\surl\\(([^)]+)\\)");
Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(input);
if (matcher.find()){
    String url = matcher.group(1);
    System.out.println(url);
}

or

Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("image:\\surl\\(http://www\\.mydomain\\.com([^)]+)\\)");

if you want to have only what follows the domain part