Question

Pattern – <(\w+)>.+</\1>

Input String – "Testing <tag>some <b>idiot</b> text</tag>idiot text continue.."

Now I received the result as "<tag>some <b>idiot</b> text</tag>". Is there any way I can modify the pattern, so that it will give me result something like :

"<tag>some <b>idiot</b> text</tag>"
"<b>idiot</b>"

Answer 1

Here’s how:

Pattern p = Pattern.compile("<(\\w+)>.+</\\1>");
String input = "Testing <tag>some <b>idiot</b> text</tag>idiot text continue..";
Matcher m = p.matcher(input);

for (int i = 0; m.find(i); i = m.start() + 1)
    System.out.println(m.group());

Output:

<tag>some <b>idiot</b> text</tag>
<b>idiot</b>