Java - Regex - Capture group between " "

Question

Do you know what is wrong here?

    Pattern pathsPatter = Pattern.compile("\"([^\"]+)\"");
    Matcher pathsMatcher = pathsPatter.matcher(commandAndParameters[1]);

I want to capture the group between " ". For example, if the string is

    mv "C:\Users\" "D:\"

the matcher should capture:

    C:\Users\
    D:\

it is already answered here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/171480/regex-grabbing-values-between-quotation-marks — Mr.Me, Mar 17 '13 at 11:16

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 17 '13 at 11:31

Try out this pattern :

    String data = "mv \"C:\\Users\\\" \"D:\\\"";

    Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("\"(.+?)\"");
    Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(data);
    System.out.println("Started");
    while (matcher.find()) {
        System.out.println(matcher.group(1));
    }

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 17 '13 at 11:21

Works fine here:

Pattern pathsPattern = Pattern.compile("\"([^\"]+)\"");
Matcher pathsMatcher = pathsPattern.matcher("mv \"C:\\Users\\\" \"D:\\\"");
pathsMatcher.find();
System.out.println("found " + pathsMatcher.group(1)); // prints: found C:\Users\
pathsMatcher.find();
System.out.println("found " + pathsMatcher.group(1)); // prints: found D:\

Java - Regex - Capture group between " "

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