what is the Java equivalent of sscanf for parsing values from a string using a known pattern?

Question

So I come from a C background (originally originally, though I haven\'t used that language for almost 5 years) and I\'m trying to parse some values from a string in Java. In

Answer 1

None of these examples were really satisfactory to me so I made my own java sscanf utility:

https://github.com/driedler/java-sscanf/tree/master/src/util/sscanf

Here's an example of parsing a hex string:

String buffer = "my hex string: DEADBEEF\n"
Object output[] = Sscanf.scan(buffer, "my hex string: %X\n", 1);

System.out.println("parse count: " + output.length);
System.out.println("hex str1: " + (Long)output[0]);

// Output:
// parse count: 1
// hex str1: 3735928559