Question

I’m trying to get a value from an HTML page that has the name “this”
ex:

name="this" value="XXXX-XXX-xxxxx-xxxxx"

I tried to use

Pattern pat = Pattern.compile("name=\"this\" value=\"(.*?)\"");
Matcher match = pat.matcher(sb);
        if(match.matches())
            return match.group();

But nothing returned. What should I do?

Answer 1

Like Joop said; use “find”:

Pattern pat = Pattern.compile("name=\"this\" value=\"(.*?)\"");
Matcher match = pat.matcher(sb);
if(match.find())
    return match.group(1);

Also note that you’ll want to retrieve “group(1)”, since just group() returns the entire pattern match.