Using Regular Expressions to Extract a Value in Java

Question

I have several strings in the rough form:

[some text] [some number] [some more text]

I want to extract the text in [some number] using the

Answer 1

In addition to Pattern, the Java String class also has several methods that can work with regular expressions, in your case the code will be:

"ab123abc".replaceFirst("\\D*(\\d*).*", "$1")

where \\D is a non-digit character.