Question

I’m quite new to Java, but how would I go about searching a file for a tag, then everything between the tags, like a string of text, would be assigned to a variable.

For example, I’d have <title>THE TITLE</title>, But then I wanted to save the string “THE TITLE” to a variable called title1, or something.

How should I go about doing that? Thank you.

Answer 1

If you use regular expressions, then you just use a capture group:

Pattern p = Pattern.compile("<title>([^<]*)</title>", Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE);
Matcher m = p.matcher(theText);
if (m.find()) {
    String thisIsTheTextYouWant = m.group(1);
    ....