Question

This is only for a small Android program I am messing with so I only need to match one or two tags

I have one HTML tag and I can get whats inside that tag which is “FC-Cologne”
I use this code to get it

Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("report\">(.*?)</a>",Pattern.MULTILINE);

here is the HTML tag I can get to work

<a href=”/match-menu/3405570/first-team/fc-cologne=report”> FC Cologne</a>

But I can’t get this tag, I don’t know is it because of the space after the word “opposition” or/and the quotes inside the HTML tag, because they are not in the first tag

This is the one I can’t get to work

<td class=”bold opposition “> “Olympiacos” </td>

This is the code I am trying

Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("opposition \">(.*?)</td>",Pattern.MULTILINE);

I have tried replacing the spaces ” ” with “” an empty string and I have tried \s where the space is but I get nothing.

I would appreciate if anyone could help me.

Answer 1

Unless you have a typo in one of the two – < /td> has a space after the < and in your regex </td> doesn’t.

Adding a space to the regex after the < caused the match to succeed in RegexBuddy

Update: Seems the space is not in the tag the OP is working with.

In RegexBuddy I have the pattern (copied as a Java String)

"opposition \">(.*?)</td>"

which matches the html

< td class="bold opposition "> "Olympiacos"       </td>

giving a match of

opposition "> "Olympiacos"       </td>

and Group 1 of

 "Olympiacos"       <--Line ends there.