Question

So I’m trying to pull two strings via a matcher object from one string that is stored in my online databases.

Each string appears after s:64: and is in quotations
Example s:64:”stringhere”

I’m currently trying to get them as so but any regex that I’ve tried has failed,

 Pattern p = Pattern.compile("I don't know what to put as the regex");
Matcher m = p.matcher(data);

So with that said, all I need is the regex that will return the two strings in the matcher so that m.group(1) is my first string and m.group(2) is my second string.

Answer 1

String data = "s:64:\"first string\" random stuff here s:64:\"second string\"";
Pattern p = Pattern.compile("s:64:\"([^\"]*)\".*s:64:\"([^\"]*)\"");
Matcher m = p.matcher(data);
if (m.find()) {
  System.out.println("First string: '" + m.group(1) + "'");
  System.out.println("Second string: '" + m.group(2) + "'");
}

prints:

First string: ‘first string’
Second string: ‘second string’