How to get name between some string?

Question

i want to get a string between some given string

like this..

String wholetext = "SomePlace Pin- 110065 Name and address Alias 1 ID of customer-123 SomePlace "
String namerequired =  "";
String textafter = "110065 Name and address";
String textbefore = "ID of customer";

//Constant part-110065 Name and address and ID of customer

googled and get some thing like this doindexing and this doindexing1

i am trying to get Alias 1 and not getting idea :( ? Help please

give example what you want its seems very essay use http://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/StringBuilder.html — MilapTank, Aug 27 '14 at 07:31
It is very much going to depend on what you want from your String. I mean which part of the String do you want? Is there a constant part of the String after which you want to get some user input? — Barbe Rouge, Aug 27 '14 at 07:36

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 27 '14 at 07:36

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You can use Regexes(Regular Expressions). there are a lot of regex learning sites over internet. i hope this helps.

answered Aug 27 '14 at 07:36

mrkalan

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can u give me example of regex for above question? @mrkalan – dev_android Aug 28 '14 at 06:16

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 27 '14 at 07:40

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If waht you want is after the last occurence of **, you can try

String substring = wholetext.substring(wholetext.lastIndexOf("**"));
System.out.println(substring);

answered Aug 27 '14 at 07:40

Barbe Rouge

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DeiAndrei · Accepted Answer · 2014-08-27T07:58:55.280

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This should solve your problem:

    String wholetext = "Place Then Pin- **110065 Name and address** Alias 1 ID of customer-123 Some Place ";
    String textafter = "110065 Name and address";
    String textbefore = "ID of customer";

    int index1 = wholetext.indexOf(textbefore);
    int index2 = wholetext.indexOf(textafter) + textafter.length();

    String namerequired = wholetext.substring(index2, index1);
    System.out.println(namerequired);

Output:

    Alias 1

But using a regex or String matcher would probably be better.

edited Aug 27 '14 at 07:58

answered Aug 27 '14 at 07:49

DeiAndrei

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If you want it without space, use wholetext.substring(intex2 +1, index1 - 1) – DeiAndrei Aug 27 '14 at 07:54
Thnx for answer bro :) – dev_android Aug 27 '14 at 07:58

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 27 '14 at 07:40

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You can definitely use Java's Pattern matching to solve your problem. This will help you solve your current problem and any future Regex problems

See: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/regex/Pattern.html

answered Aug 27 '14 at 07:40

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