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

Sometimes you can use simple .split("REGEXP") method available in java.lang.String. For example:

String input = "first,second,third";

//To retrieve 'first' 
input.split(",")[0] 
//second
input.split(",")[1]
//third
input.split(",")[2]