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JAVA Regex Pattern for XML Gregorian Calender

I have to read file that has text as "#EXT-X-PROGRAM-DATE-TIME:2014-04-17T07:18:02.350+00:00" for every 10 seconds and ill be having such files about 400.

I need to fetch value 2014-04-17T07:18:02.350+00:00

I did a sample program that picks the above value with substring.

String aacKey = strLine.substring(strLine.indexOf(#EXT-X-PROGRAM-DATE-TIME:) + 5, strLine.length() - 1);

However, this looks like a costly approach where i see char[] is taking too much of heap space where allocated space isn't enough for the operations.

What is the best approach to address this. Also, what is the regular expression that i can use to fetch using Pattern, Matcher instead of substring().

Appreciate your response.
Thanks :)

kaufmed

what is the regular expression that i can use

String pattern = "\\d{4}-\\d{2}-\\d{2}T\\d{2}:\\d{2}:\\d{2}\\.\\d+\\d{2}:\\d{2}";

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VAnvesh

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Hi Kaufmed,

I understand the expression and i believe it is correct. However, when i used for the below program

import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;

public class StringRegex {

    public static void main(String [] a){
        String value = "#EXT-X-PROGRAM-DATE-TIME:2014-04-17T07:18:02.350+00:00";
        Pattern p = Pattern.compile("\\d{4}-\\d{2}-\\d{2}T\\d{2}:\\d{2}:\\d{2}\\.\\d+\\d{2}:\\d{2}");
        Matcher m = p.matcher(value);
        if(m.find())
        System.out.println(m.group(1));
    }
}

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I am unable to get the desired result. Can you let me know where i go wrong.

kaufmed

Try group 0 instead--I didn't include any capture groups in the pattern. Or, you can surround the pattern with parens (see below) and you can stick with group 1.

Pattern p = Pattern.compile("(\\d{4}-\\d{2}-\\d{2}T\\d{2}:\\d{2}:\\d{2}\\.\\d+\\d{2}:\\d{2})");

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VAnvesh

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solution works flawless. Thanks to Kaufmed.