regex Pattern

[Dean A. Hoover]

I've got a 4 line message that looks like this:

Encountered "<EOF>" at line 1, column 7.
Was expecting one of:
"=" ...
"]]" ...

and want to get the line and column numbers
from it. This is what I am doing:

Pattern pattern =
Pattern.compile("at line (\\d+), column (\\d+)");
Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(message);

if (matcher.matches())
{
System.out.println("match");
this.line = Integer.parseInt(matcher.group(1));
this.column = Integer.parseInt(matcher.group(2));
}
else
{
System.out.println("no match");
}

and I cannot get it to match. What is wrong?
Dean Hoover

[Steve]

Dean,

You need to call the "find()" method of Matcher which looks for the
next subsequence that matches the pattern. The "matches()" method
tries to match the ENTIRE input string to the pattern, which in this
case would fail.

Steve

"Dean A. Hoover" <dh*******@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<sa*******************@twister.nyroc.rr.com>. ..

I've got a 4 line message that looks like this:

Encountered "<EOF>" at line 1, column 7.
Was expecting one of:
"=" ...
"]]" ...

and want to get the line and column numbers
from it. This is what I am doing:

Pattern pattern =
Pattern.compile("at line (\\d+), column (\\d+)");
Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(message);

if (matcher.matches())
{
System.out.println("match");
this.line = Integer.parseInt(matcher.group(1));
this.column = Integer.parseInt(matcher.group(2));
}
else
{
System.out.println("no match");
}

and I cannot get it to match. What is wrong?
Dean Hoover