Find the last match with Java regex matcher

Question

I\'m trying to get the last result of a match without having to cycle through .find()

Here\'s my code:

String in = \"num 123 num 1 num 698 num 19238          


        

Answer 1

just use \Z - end of string mach

String in = "num 123 num 1 num 698 num 19238 num 2134";
Pattern p = Pattern.compile("num ([0-9]+)\\Z");
Matcher m = p.matcher(in);

if (m.find()) {
     in = m.group(1);
}