How to match a method block using regex?

Question

Take an example.

 public static FieldsConfig getFieldsConfig(){
    if(xxx) {
      sssss;
    }
   return;
}

I write a regex, \"\\\\

Answer 1

I decided to take it one step further ;)

Here's a regex that'll give you the modifiers, type, name and body of a function in different capture groups:

((?:(?:public|private|protected|static|final|abstract|synchronized|volatile)\s+)*)
\s*(\w+)\s*(\w+)\(.*?\)\s*({(?:{[^{}]*}|.)*?})

It handles nested braces (@callOfCode it is (semi-)possible with regex ;) and a fixed set of modifiers.

It doesn't handle complicated stuff like braces inside comments and stuff like that, but it'll work for the simplest ones.

Regards

Regex101 sample here

Edit: And to answer your question ;), what you're interested in is capture group 4.

Edit 2: As I said - simple ones. But you could make it more complicated to handle more complicated methods. Here's an updated handling one more level of nesting.

((?:(?:public|private|protected|static|final|abstract|synchronized|volatile)\s+)*)
\s*(\w+)\s*(\w+)\(.*?\)\s*({(?:{[^{}]*(?:{[^{}]*}|.)*?[^{}]*}|.)*?})

And you could another level... and another... But as someone commented - this shouldn't be done by regex. This however handles simple methods.