How to extract a string between two delimiters [duplicate]

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substring between two delimiters

I have a string like

"ABC[ This is to extract ]"

I want to extract the part "This is to extract" in java. I am trying to use split, but it is not working the way I want. Does anyone have suggestion?

Solution 1:

If you have just a pair of brackets ( [] ) in your string, you can use indexOf():

String str = "ABC[ This is the text to be extracted ]";    
String result = str.substring(str.indexOf("[") + 1, str.indexOf("]"));

Solution 2:

If there is only 1 occurrence, the answer of ivanovic is the best way I guess. But if there are many occurrences, you should use regexp:

\[(.*?)\] this is your pattern. And in each group(1) will get you your string.

Pattern p = Pattern.compile("\\[(.*?)\\]");
Matcher m = p.matcher(input);
while(m.find())
{
    m.group(1); //is your string. do what you want
}