exttracting the name from the string which i read from file

[Karthik Prasath]

I read the following line from a file

 <th colspan="2"><font color="Brown">ABINAYA N</font></th>

in this line i want to extract name of the student (ABINAYA N here) how can i do that?

i will read this line for various 95 students where the students name may differ say(KARTHIK PRASATH K,KEERTHANA N,AJITH M)

how can i extract name of the students alone???

pls help me as soon as possible

advance thanks to you..

[JosAH]

Read the API documentation for the Pattern and Matcher classes.
Compile a Pattern with the regular expression "\\>([^>]+)\\<" and match for
group 1 start and end boundaries.

kind regards,

Jos

[Karthik Prasath]

I read the following line from a file

<th colspan="2"><font color="Brown">ABINAYA N</font></th>

in this line i want to extract name of the student (ABINAYA N here) how can i do that?

i will read this line for various 95 students where the students name may differ say(KARTHIK PRASATH K,KEERTHANA N,AJITH M)

how can i extract name of the students alone???

pls help me as soon as possible

advance thanks to you.

pls explain with some code
pls pls pls

[JosAH]

Hi, I removed your other identical thread. I also gave you the solution to your
problem: create a Pattern given the regexp I showed you; have the Pattern
create a Matcher and find the start() and end|() boundaries of group #1.
All you have to do is read the API documentation now.

kind regards,

Jos (moderator)

[Nepomuk]

As an alternative to Jos' suggestion, you could work with the String.substring() method, although regular expressions (the things with Patterns and Matchers) would be much more elegant.

Greetings,
Nepomuk

[JosAH]

As an alternative to Jos' suggestion, you could work with the String.substring() method

Which brings you back to exactly the original problem: what are the boundaries
of that substring?

kind regards,

Jos

[Nepomuk]

Which brings you back to exactly the original problem: what are the boundaries of that substring?

String.indexOf(...) (and related methods) should be quite helpful finding those.

Greetings,
Nepomuk

[JosAH]

String.indexOf(...) (and related methods) should be quite helpful finding those.

Greetings,
Nepomuk

Sure, but the substring() method doesn't help a bit; it can only extract the
result from the string.

kind regards,

Jos

[Nepomuk]

Sure, but the substring() method doesn't help a bit; it can only extract the result from the string.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but

in this line i want to extract name of the student (ABINAYA N here) how can i do that?

suggests, that extracting the result from the string is part of the process. ^^

Greetings,
Nepomuk

[JosAH]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but suggests, that extracting the result from the string is part of the process. ^^

Ah, so to questions like "I want to <fronobulax> my database and <mumble>
them and show the results to the user" you answer: System.out.println() because
that method is part of the process. Big fun.

kind regards,

Jos

[Nepomuk]

Ah, so to questions like "I want to <fronobulax> my database and <mumble> them and show the results to the user" you answer: System.out.println() because that method is part of the process. Big fun.

No, but answering: "You can use the System.out.println() method for the actual showing-part." would be correct. And I just said: "You can work with the String.substring() method." ^^

As I said in my initial post, your solution is much more elegant and if possible should be preferred. But I thought, I'd offer a second option and let the OP think about the two.

Greetings,
Nepomuk