I've been using this in php...
preg_match_all('|<a href="http://www.example.com/photoid/(.*?)"><img src="(.*?)" alt="(.*?)" /></a>|is',$xx, $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER);
where $xx is the entire webpage content as a string, to find all occurrences of matches.
This sets $matches to a two dimensional array which I can then loop through with a for statement based on the length of $matches and use for example ..
$matches[$i][1] which is would be the first (.*?)
$matches[$i][2] which is would be the second (.*?)
and so on....
My question is how can this be replicated in java?
I've been reading tutorials and blogs on java regex and have been using Pattern and Matcher but can't seem to figure it out. Also, matcher never finds anything. so my while(matcher.find()) have been futile and usually throws an error saying no matches have been found yet
This is my java code for the pattern to be matched is ...
String pattern = new String(
"<a href=\"http://www.example.com/photoid/(w+)\"><img src=\"(w+)\" alt=\"(w+)\" /></a>");
I've also tried ..
String pattern = new String(
"<a href=\"http://www.example.com/photoid/(.*?)\"><img src=\"(.*?)\" alt=\"(.*?)\" /></a>");
and
String pattern = new String(
"<a href=\"http://www.example.com/photoid/(\\w+)\"><img src=\"(\\w+)\" alt=\"(\\w+)\" /></a>");
no matches are ever found.
