Question

I’d like a regular expression for Java that can take this string

[phone] (East coast)

And produce two groups

• [phone]
• East coast

I’m having difficulty with escaping the round brackets.

Answer 1

Should be:

^(.*)\((.*)\)$

This assumes no special format – it will accept digits or letters anywhere. The regex reads:

^ – Start of the string
(.*) – some letters (captured group)
\( – literal (
(.*) – more letters (captured group)
\) – literal )
$ – end of string

Keep in mind it is a relatively easy task, and you can solve it with simple string manipulation.