Question

I need to get some specific text out of a string and get that into an arraylist, but I have no idea where to start.
The string looks like this:

String exampleString = "some text I don't know <pre>the text I want to get</pre><pre>Some more text I want to get</pre> some text I don't know"

But the problem is that I don’t know how many text sections there are with <pre> text </pre> it’s even possible that there aren’t any of those sections at all.

So could anyone tell me how to get the texts between those <pre> and </pre> and how to get those into an arraylist.

Thank you so much!

UPDATE: What I do know about the text from which I said “some text I don’t know” is that it doesn’t contain <pre> or </pre>

Answer 1

try {
    Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("<pre>(.+?)</pre>");
    Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(yourText);

    while (matcher.find()) {
        //  matcher.group() will contain the match from the previous find() statement
    }
}
catch(Exception ex){}

edited: corrected regex syntax