Extracting string from within round brackets in Java with regex

Question

I\'m trying to extract a string from round brackets.
Let\'s say, I have John Doe (123456789) and I want to output the string 123456789 only.

Answer 1

String str="John Doe (123456789)";
System.out.println(str.substring(str.indexOf("(")+1,str.indexOf(")")));

Here I'm performing string operations. I'm not that much familiar with regex.

Answer 2

In Java, you need to use

String pattern = "\\(([^()]+)\\)";

Then, the value you need is in .group(1).

String str = "John Doe (123456789)";
String rx = "\\(([^()]+)\\)";
Pattern ptrn = Pattern.compile(rx);
Matcher m = ptrn.matcher(str);
while (m.find()) {
  System.out.println(m.group(1));
}

See IDEONE demo

Answer 3

this works for me :

@Test
public void myTest() {
    String test = "test (mytest)";
    Pattern p = Pattern.compile("\\((.*?)\\)");
    Matcher m = p.matcher(test);

    while(m.find()) {
        assertEquals("mytest", m.group(1));
    }
}

Answer 4

You need to escape brackets in your regexp:

    String in = "John Doe (123456789)";

    Pattern p = Pattern.compile("\\((\\d*)\\)");
    Matcher m = p.matcher(in);

    while (m.find()) {
        System.out.println(m.group(1));
    }