Getting specific part of a string

Question

I am trying to parse through a string which i create after getting a response from an API.

this is the string i am trying to parse:

// API callback
translateText({
 "data":{
  "translations":[
  {
   "translatedText": "Ola Mundo",
   "detectedSourceLanguage": "en"
  }
 ]
}
}
);

i want to be able to get the Translated text "Ola Mundo", but i don't want to just search through it and get that specific text, as this Text maybe different the next time.

This question is already answered here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2591098/how-to-parse-json-in-java — Paul Ostrowski, Mar 24 '16 at 16:52

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 24 '16 at 16:52

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It seems this is a valid JSON object , one option is to convert the string to a JSON object using Jackson library or something else , after that you can get anything you want .

answered Mar 24 '16 at 16:52

Mutaz Alghafary

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 24 '16 at 16:52

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Try to do that with the following Regex:

translatedText": (.*?),

In Java, you approach to the result with:

Pattern p = Pattern.compile("");
Matcher m = p.matcher(str);

answered Mar 24 '16 at 16:52

Nikolas Charalambidis

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score 0 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:15

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If you you remove the translateText(); part and just have:

{ "data":{ "translations":[ { "translatedText": "Ola Mundo", "detectedSourceLanguage": "en" } ] } }

its a valid JSON object and you can easily use a library to parse it. See this post. This way is recommend if you want to access the data securely.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:15

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answered Mar 24 '16 at 17:02

Joakim Ericsson

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i cant remove anything from the string as it automatically generated code – Jdavis649 Mar 24 '16 at 17:04
You could just make a new string and remove the first 13 characters and the last 2. – Joakim Ericsson Mar 24 '16 at 17:06

Getting specific part of a string

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