Extract sub-string between two certain words using regex in java

Question

I would like to extract sub-string between certain two words using java.

For example:

This is an important example about regex for my work.
         


        

Answer 1

Your regex is "an\\s+(.*?)\\s+for". It extracts all characters between an and for ignoring white spaces (\s+). The question mark means "greedy". It is needed to prevent pattern .* to eat everything including word "for".