Getting the text that follows after the regex match

Question

I\'m new to using Regex, I\'ve been going through a rake of tutorials but I haven\'t found one that applies to what I want to do,

I want to search for something, but

Answer 1

if Matcher is initialized with str, after the match, you can get the part after the match with

str.substring(matcher.end())

Sample Code:

final String str = "Some lame sentence that is awesome";
final Matcher matcher = Pattern.compile("sentence").matcher(str);
if(matcher.find()){
    System.out.println(str.substring(matcher.end()).trim());
}

Output:

that is awesome